APRIL, 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 at night the life-boat watchman reported a vessel aground on the Binks. Shortly afterwards she signalled SOS by whistle. The weather was fine, with a light variable wind and a...
The eight gold medals were presented to seven coxswains. They were Robert Cross, of The Humber, who won the gold medal twice, and also the silver medal, the thanks on vellum and the George Medal, and helped to rescue 244 lives; Henry Blogg,...
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Throughout the summer of Maritime England Year the Marquess of Bath displayed his collection of tiny Channel Is/and cowrie shells in two huge glass urns in the Great Hall at Longleat. Visitors making a voluntary contribution to the RNLI were... - View image in PDF
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Contents RNLINews.
Volume L Number 497 Lifeboat Services.
Fraserhurgh: When a job needs doing, by Georgette Purches.
42 48 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOI.I.
Director and...
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• 'In the lifeboat service people are all important.' With this, the opening sentence of his foreword, Patrick Howarth sets the pattern of his latest and most intriguing book on the RNLI, Lifeboats and Lifeboat People (White Lion...
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Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy birthday, Frammy!
A former Whitby crew member recently celebrated his 90th birthday. He served on the lifeboat from 1951 to 1975. Ronnie Frampton, known...
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Mary Taylor of Padstow is a prolific fund raiser. During the financial year ending September 1985 she raised a magnificent £1,250—all the more remarkable when you find out that she makes all the items she sells herself. Throughout the... - View image in PDF
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Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.
Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...
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