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RNLI News
RNLI's largest bequestThe RNLI has recently received its largest legacy ever.
The bequest is eventually expected to total some £6.5m, and will be a great help to the Institution in providing new lifeboats and...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Classified
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The Old Bakehouse. Beautiful E.
Devon. Come and enjoy the peaceful charm of our lovely 17th century hotel. Oak beams, log fire, superb cuisine. All rooms en suite,...
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Special Life-Boat Funds
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.
Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS. K.G.
Vice-Patrons— The Most Hon. the MARQUIS OF Ripon, K.O.
The Right Hon. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,...
Category: Accounts
Visitors
Visits by French, Dutch and Spanish delegations, on behalf of their respective lifeboat societies, took place in November and January.
The Netherlands delegation, headed by the Director of the North and South Holland...
Category: Articles
Eros and the Escort Vessel Challenger
NOVEMBER 3RD. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Kinnaird Head coastguard that a wireless call for help had been received by way of the R.A.F. Station at Rosehearty. The life-boat crew were assembled and...
A Caisson and a Pontoon
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that he had been asked whether, because conditions were growing worse, the life-boat could land a working party from a...
The Fundraisers
Appeal reaches £75,000 BBC Radio Cleveland's Lifeboat 2000 Appeal has now reached the target of €75,000 to purchase an Atlantic 75 class inshore lifeboat for Hartiepool.
The news was broken to thousands of...
Category: Articles
Helen Birch, of Hull,
Wells, Norfolk.—About 1.30 P.M. on the 8th December, 1937, information was received from a man and from the coastguard that a ship was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 2.50 P.M....
A Fine Service at Broughty Ferry
ON the night of 20th January, 1937, the life-boat coxswain at Broughty Ferry, (Dundee), heard on his wireless that the Abertay lightship, which lies off Buddon Ness, six miles away, was asking that the Broughty Ferry life- boat should go out...
Category: Services