By the death of Mrs. H. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea, who died on 22nd November, 1929, at the age of 85, the Institution has lost one of its oldest workers. She became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she...
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ARBROATH.—On the 25th February the People's Journal No. 2 Life-boat put off and remained by the fishing yawl Jane Smith, of Arbroath, until that vessel had crossed the bar and got safely into port during an E.N.E. wind and a heavy...
Aith crew member Jim Nicolson. - View image in PDF
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A new experimental boat (see page 545) has been built for the Royal National Life-boat Institution with a glass-reinforced plastic (G.R.P.) hull and deck. The hull, which is a standard commercial one, was designed by T.T. Boat Designs Ltd.,...
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50 Years Ago Ship on Fire By Lieutenant L. A. C. May, R.M. (Ret.), Honorary Secretary, Holy head Station.
The telephone rings loud and loud; time 5.25 am, 22nd March 1937. 1 hasten to answer it and am informed by the...
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FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
Category: Services
Below: tractor driver Mike Judge, Andrew Flanagan. Seth Gleeson and David Parry. - View image in PDF
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The Invergordon lifeboat, Douglas Aikman Smith. - View image in PDF
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Douglas Aikman Smith named at Invergordon. - View image in PDF
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STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed or Named. No. ENGLAND. Ft. In. Ft. in. NORTHUMBERLAND BKRWICK-OX-TWKED - - - 33 - 8 - 10 1864 1 HOLY ISLASD — No. 1 - — — 34 - 8 ...
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