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The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
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Is your risk of drowning greater than you think?
Around 400 people drown in the UK every year; a further 140 in Ireland. So what is the RNLI doing about it?
Our courageous volunteer lifeboat crews, lifeguards and flood rescue teams...
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24 hours on the Thames
Tower Lifeboat Station is the busiest in the UK. To find out exactly what life is like for the crew members that save lives on the capital's most famous waterway, Writer Catherine Richards spent 24 hours shadowing a shift ....
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Bernard Byrne Comes of a Traditional Lifeboat Family and Like His Uncle Philip In Former Years Is Coxswain of Arranmore Lifeboat
Bernard Byrne comes of a traditional lifeboat family and, like his uncle, Philip, in former years, is coxswain of Arranmore lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 96 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING JANUARY life-boats were launched on service 53 times and rescued 15 lives.
t [BOAT FOUND AFTER MESSAGE FROM HELICOPTER Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.25 on the morning of 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at...
Category: Services
Terrible Twins
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.35 on the morning of the llth of May, 1958, the motor mechanic saw a small ship's boat, which had broken down with engine trouble north of Caister Elbow buoy.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose...
Prins Alexander
Ramsgate, Kent.-—At 5.44 on the morning on the 10th of July, 1952, the ! coastguard reported that the motor vessel Prins Alexander, of Rotterdam, and the S.S. N. 0. Ragenaes, of I Haugesund, had been in collision about eight miles east by...
The Half-Pence Scheme
The half-pence scheme My grandad and nan have been saving half-pennies for the lifeboat service for 28 years. Of course they receive a receipt for what they hand in but my brother Paul and I feel sure they would love to see a few words of...
Category: Correspondence
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1872.
JAN. 1,...
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