(Right) Burton-on-Trent branch president and a committee member plan to visit all English mainland lifeboat stations on their BMW motorcycles. They will start from the RNLI stand at the Royal Show being held at the National Agricultural... - View image in PDF
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Launches 86. Lives rescued 90., September Meeting.
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of...
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Greater London.
BALHAM.—Special meeting. Branch formed. Lieut.-Colonel G. F. Doland, O.B.E., J.P., M.P., L.CC., patron; the Mayor of Wandsworth, president; Kngr. Rear-Admiral W. M. Whayman, C.B., Councillor Evan Rees, M.I.G...
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In October, more than 50 people met at The Mumbles Lifeboat Station to raise money in memory of RNLI supporter Tim Mahoney, who sadly passed away last year.
Tim loved cycling and completed a Ride to the Somme charity bike ride...
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NEWCASTLE, DUNDBUM BAY.—At 1 P.M. on the 13th February, the brigantine Trader, of Portaferry, was seen driving before a hard gale, at S.E., into Dundrum Bay. The Trader had lost her foretopmast and was otherwise disabled aloft, and had a...
The Duke of Atholl, former convener of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, with Mrs E. P.
Hill, former secretary of Gourock ladies' guild. Mrs Hill, awarded a gold badge, had been unable to attend the AGM in London in May to... - View image in PDF
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Six-year-old Stuart Tarvet of St Monans was so keen to help at Anstruther's Lifeboat Day Gala that he dressed up as a collecting box, and collected £20! The Gala attracted over 5,000 people and the firing of a maroon started the... - View image in PDF
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To review the progress made in the Life-boats used on the Coast of Great Britain between the years 1785 and 1900 would be practically to go into the whole history of Life-boat construction, but it is intended in this article only to touch...
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Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Launches 110. Lives rescued 102.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow_On the night of the 20th November,...
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. . . to a lifeboat Torbay's inshore lifeboat was called out to pluck the girl from the rocks and take her across the bay to Haldon Pier.. - View image in PDF
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