Odysseus aboard his new lifeboat at the 'walk-intothe- sea', accompanied by his 'shore-helpers' Grandpop and the Mayor of Teignmouth.. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 7TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 3.20 in the afternoon a report was received by telephone from the Bailey Lighthouse that a yacht was showing a distress signal. A south-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
On the night of 2ist. December, 1945, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued eleven men from two naval motor fishing vessels which had stranded on the Gunfleet Sands in a very heavy sea. The life-boat's rudder was damaged and Coxswain...
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Renewable energy company Ørsted has pledged its support to the RNLI with a new 3-year partnership A global leader in offshore wind, Ørsted will donate more than £200,000 to fund the running costs of lifeboats at Barrow,...
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Dungeness: The moment of naming. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of J. P. Morris. - View image in PDF
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An aerial view of Ramsey Sound from the north. The Bitches can be seen as a thin line of rocks running eastwards into the sound off the island of Ramsey on the right.
Photograph by courtesy of West Air Photography.
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After demonstration runs to sea, HRH The Duke of Kent disembarks from Soldian at LerH'ick . . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Fotopress, Dundee. - View image in PDF
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Padstow, Cornwall.—At 3.43 in the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that the s.s. British Supremacy had wirelessed that she had taken in tow the ex-motor fishing vessel Will- roy, of Fleetwood, with...
Fitting out of the Institution's second mobile training unit caravan was undertaken by Peter Fulton (centre), honorary training consultant to the RNLI; while work progressed, the caravan was parked outside his home. Helping with the... - View image in PDF
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IN March Mr. N. V. Wade, the honorary treasurer of the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales, wrote to the Institution to say that there were Shiplovers' Societies not only in London and Bristol, but in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide...
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