On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as quickly as...
MONTROSE.—At about 9 A.M. on the 13th April the wind commenced to blow from S.S.E., and the sea rose quickly, the coxswains of the Life-boats were therefore on the watch during the day in case there should be any call for their services.<...
THE RNLI'S ACCOUNTS for 1975 are not complete at the time of going to press, hut it is certain that expenditure will have exceeded income. In other words there w i l l he a deficit which will have to he made good.
The...
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Once more the Institution's drama group, The Grosvenor Circle, is to enter Westminster Drama Festival in November. Last year was the first time the group entered the festival, and it was a successful effort by all. This year's entry,...
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Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.20 p.m. on 4th February, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a radio telephone request for assistance had been received from the hovercraft Sure which had broken down half a mile south east of the...
LIGHTVESSEL CREWMAN BROUGHT ASHORE Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on Monday the 1st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the North Goodwin lightvessel was very ill. At 4.40 the life-boat...
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TOWER | 14 OCTOBER
A woman believed to be suffering from epilepsy was rescued from the River Thames by Tower lifeboat crew. Passengers aboard a nearby boat directed the crew members to the woman. She...
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WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
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IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
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