IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.
This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...
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(Below) A visit to HQ operations room followed the opening ceremony. While Mrs Thatcher looks through lifeboat photographs, Mr Denis Thatcher signs the visitors' book.
With them are (I to r) Cdr George Cooper, deputy... - View image in PDF
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On the 17th No- vember, the smack Plowman, of Yar- mouth, was seen making signals of distress in Yarmouth Roads during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. The Duff small life- boat went off through a heavy sea, and after several attempts,...
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—10th January. A trawler had run ashore ten miles west of Mumbles Head, but her crew of eleven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus, with the exception of one man who was drowned....
ON 12th July, 1926, the Rhoscolyn Life-boat launched to and stood by the S.B. Kvrkwynd, of Glasgow, which had stranded, during a thick fog, two miles to the east of Rhoscolyn. The Life-boat returned arid, later, made a second trip to the...
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Several of the fishing cobles belonging to Scar- borough were overtaken when at sea by bad weather on the 14th January. All the boats with the exception, of one, which was named the Queensbury, suc- ceeded in getting into safety, but as it...
The two photographs on this page were taken on the same day. - View image in PDF
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MR. R. C. BAVERSTOCK, former Assistant Secretary of the Institution, died on the 21st October. He joined the Institution's staff in 1909, and after a break during the first world war, when he served in the army, he was in the service...
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Balancing poles are fitted just before the lifeboat is clear of the water. - View image in PDF
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COXSWAIN DIVES FOR BOY IN a life-saving service at St. Ives, Cornwall, on 26th July, 1972, Coxswain Thomas Cocking, who had been taken to the scene by motor launch ahead of the ILB, dived overboard to assist a boy who was in...