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Bridlington Life-Boat Returning to Harbour After Escorting In Three Keelboats Caught By Rough Seas
Bridlington Life-Boat Returning To Harbour After Escorting In Three Keelboats Caught By Rough Seas. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue (continued)
A FAMILY DAY OUT
HOLYHEAD | 7 JUNE
An experienced sailor and his 5-year-old grandson got driven aground in their 8m cruiser, after getting snagged in lobsterpot lines. They were spotted by nearby walkers, who quickly...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 7
AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
list of New Branches.
The following new Branches have been formed since the list published in Life Lifeboat, for March 1926.
NORTHERN DISTRICT.
Branch. Honorary...
Category: Branches
Our Inland Branches. Huddersfield
HEMMED in on all sides by high hills, and occupying a position in the very heart of the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, itself a large centre of population engaged in the woollen and cloth trades, is situated the town of...
Category: Articles
Letters
Augustine Courtauld Can we please hear a bit more about 'the well known explorer' Augustine Courtauld, after whom the new Poole lifeboat has been named?—N. L.
STEWART, LIEUT.-CDR., RN, at RAF Staff College,...
Category: Correspondence
The Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society By John G Francis
A LESSER KNOWN BRANCH of the RNLI is the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society. It was formed in 1964 to cater for the needs of those with a technical or historical interest in the work of the Institution. Initially there were only eight members...
Category: Articles
First Prize for Sheffield Schoolgirl
ELIZABETH LAVINIA MAXFIELD, of North and South Anston County Pri- mary School, North Anston, Sheffield, won first prize in the competition for the best essay on the life-boat service organized by the Institution.
The...
Category: Articles
Peter Gilson
Peter Gilson, deputy launching authority at Southend-on-Sea from 1986 until his death. He joined Southend lifeboat crew in 1947, and was bowman from 1953 to 1954 and second coxswain for one year in 1955 before being appointed coxswain in...
Category: Obituaries
Peter Bath
Peter Bath who, with his predeceased wife Jean, were the donors of the relief Mersey class lifeboat Margaret Jean..
Category: Obituaries