The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains and under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
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The Port Talbot IRB going to the aid of a man trapped under a capsized dinghy. The rescued man alongside the IRB supported by the swimmer. A specially equipped swimmer bringing to safety the rescued man.. - View image in PDF
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IT is our national boast that Britannia rules the waves, and so it was only befitting that the honour of, inventing the Life-boat should fall to the lot of a Briton. Whether or not Henry Greathead was that particular Briton has been a matter...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept In roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Thurrock branch members turned a derelict ship's lifeboat given to the branch chairman, Sherwin A.
Chase, by a Grays firm of ship breakers into an Oakley lifeboat 'replica'. She is named Henry de Grey and now is... - View image in PDF
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IT is very gratifying to observe that the French Life-boat Society continues steadily to extend its beneficent operations on the broad basis of the system of the English NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the ap- probation of which by our...
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The smacks John and ftrace, of Mjlford, and Mary, of j Cardigan, having, from the violence of the gale, then blowing from N.E., parted their cables and driven on to the Grood- wick Sands, the Life-boat Sir Edward Perrott was launched and...