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• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...
Category: Articles
A French Military Seaplane
St. Helier, Jersey.—6th April, 1939.
A French military seaplane had been forced down in the sea, but she was helped by a French fishing boat.
Letters of thanks were received from the French Navy and the...
Valentia's New 52Ft Arun Margaret Frances Love
Valentia's new 52ft Arun Margaret Frances Love was greeted when she arrived on station in February by the previous Valentia lifeboat, the 52ft Barnett Rowland Watts. The photograph was taken by Richard J. Robinson, a former crew member,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitstable
WHITSTABLE, Sunday January 19, 1986: a 24ft fishing boat, Duke Senior, with a party of anglers on board ran aground outside the harbour in a strong westerly force 9 gale. She was later re-floated by the rising tide and at 1417 she was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Another Success for Queen Victoria
The beautifully restored 1887 pulling and sailing lifeboat, Queen Victoria, was in action again on 30 May when she was hauled overland from Bembridge to Sandown on the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria is thought to be the oldest surviving RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (30)
MARCH 10TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
A damaged aeroplane was expected to come down in the sea and the life-boat went out to stand by, but she was recalled by wireless as the aeroplane had landed elsewhere.- Rewards, £9 19s....
An Aeroplane (39)
OCTOBER 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but half an hour after the life-boat put out she was recalled by wireless by the naval officer in charge at Ramsgate. - Rewards, £15..
A Parachute
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 9.58 in the morning the coast-guardreported that a parachute had been seen to drop twelve miles to the S.W., and at 10.23 the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched....
North-Western Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds in the North-West of England was held at Blackpool on 17th and 18th June.
Two hundred and thirty-six delegates attended, from forty-four branches and guilds. The delegates were officially...
Category: Meetings
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M.
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., died in Cromer and District Hospital on the night of the 13th of June, 1954, at the age of 78.
Henry Blogg's record as a life-boat- man is unique in the history of the Institution, for...
Category: Obituaries