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THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.43 on the evening of the 19th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on the rocks at Groomsport.
At six o'clock the life-boat Sir Samuel...
A welcome at Bembridge lifeboat station for Nigel Foster who raised £350 for Bembridge ladies' guild in the London Marathon. The cheque was received by Mrs S. Snelling, guild president. With them are (I to r front centre) Mrs D.... - View image in PDF
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Of the 11 new life-boats ordered in 1971 four were of the 44-foot steel Waveney class, three of the 37-foot Mark i Rother (above), two of the 50-foot steel Thames (below), one of the 52-foot Mark II Arun and one of the 71-foot steel Clyde... - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
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Active Membership The encouraging start to our 21 st year has continued with 10,315 new adult members recruited in the first five months of 1989, whilst the response to our appeal in the Spring journal for junior membership has been...
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Pass them on...
The letters regarding 'passing on' THE LIFEBOAT interested me as I too have done this for a number of years, taking the journal to our local doctors' surgery and, more recently, sending them on a...
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This Spring saw the official reopening of the RNLI Grace Darling museum in Northumberland, after years of redevelopment. Was it worth the wait? Carol Waterkeyn pays a visit to find out
In 1938, a museum opened in Bamburgh...
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