Sir Peter de la Billiere (extreme right) presents the Silk Cut National Rescue Award to Peter Bisson (right of group) and members of the St Peter Port lifeboat crew. - View image in PDF
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Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.43 a.m. on 15th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the brother of the acting honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that the oyster smack Frederick George of Maldon...
Last spring it was announced that the Variety Club of Great Britain had agreed to meet the costs of the payments made by the RNLI to dependent children of lifeboatmen who had lost their lives on service or exercise, and also that the Club... - View image in PDF
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DURING September life-boats went out on service 68 times and rescued 25 lives.
TWICE AGROUND Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of...
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The advent of the Boat Show means eleven happy days of reunions with old and introduction to new friends of the lifeboat service who come to the RNLI stand. Cilia Black was one of many welcome visitors, and to show her over Silver Jubilee... - View image in PDF
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THE Central Appeals Committee, whose chairman is Mr. R. N. Crumbie, 126a High Street, Orpington, Kent, continues to develop new fund raising measures on behalf of the R.N.L.I.
The national sponsored swim, arranged by the...
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Illustration from THE LIFEBOAT, February 1881, of the wreck of Indian Chief: Ramsgate lifeboat, Bradford, in tow of the tug Vulcan..
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MARYPORT.—On the 29th August the barque Italiana, of Nuova Rosa, got ashore on Seaton Point, near Workington, during a fresh breeze at N.W. A boat from the neighbouring coast put off to give assistance, but was capsized, and 3 men on board...
About 2 j P.M. on the 18th October, at which time i itt was blowing a heavy gale from E.S.E., - the schooner Leopold, of Eiga, was ob- ; served on the Tay Banks at the mouth of | that river. The Life-boat Mary Hartley, stationed at...
Sylvia Knox (left) of the Portrush ladies' guild accepts a cheque for over £9,000 from the Porlrush Raft Race Committee, being the proceeds of the 1987 race. Over the past five vears the committee has raised nearly 140,000 for the... - View image in PDF
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