We're not asking you to risk your life in Force 9 gales. Or to be on call, day and night. Or even to devote time to training. We are asking for something equally important, though: put pen to paper, below, and take out a Lifeboats...
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The Royal Humane Society has awarded a testimonial on parchment to Mr.
William Dryden, motor mechanic of the Whitby life-boat, for his rescue on 5th May, 1965, of a three year old girl who had fallen into the lower...
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Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 6.28 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1959, the police were informed that the sailing dinghy Mild and Bitter had capsized in the bay and that two people were in the water. The honorary secretary and...
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ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has established a new and additional Station at Aldeburgh, in order to strengthen the Life-boat service on that part of the coast, the local committee unanimously concurring, and a...
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HRH The Princess Royal examines a D class inflatable with the Superintendent of the RNLI Depot, Mick Wheeler (left) and Deputy Director Ray Kipling (right) during her visit on 30 November 1989.. - View image in PDF
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the news that a relative of the Fish family is working on a biography of Coxswain Charles Fish, the famous Ramsgale lifeboat men who is associated with the wreck of the Indian Chief in 1881, comes a picture of David Fish, great grandson. He... - View image in PDF
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SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
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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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Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, is well known to the R.N.L.I, for his life-boat paintings. He has exhibited and sold pictures at exhibitions run by the Royal Society of Marine Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters,... - View image in PDF
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