Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The Winter 1906 Life-boat Journal featured a letter of thanks to the Broadstairs lifeboat crew, Kent, after they had launched into a south westerly gale and...
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READERS WILL FIND below suggested clauses covering bequests to the Royal National Life-boat Institution which may be of assistance to their solicitors in preparing their wills, should they decide to remember the Institution in this...
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NOEFOLK, — The barque Alabama, of Helsingborg, Sweden, struck on the Sunk Sands off Hnnstanton on the evening of the 20th November, and then drove over the sands and filled with water. Being timber laden she did" not sink, but went...
THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...
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About 12.20 P.M. on the 10th February the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat observed the Billy-boy Annie, of Grimsby, being towed over the bar outward bound, when the tow-rope suddenly broke and the Billy- boy drifted rapidly towards the North...
THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...
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Godzilla looks as if she is beginning to feel the pace. It is hardlv surprising as she has had to battle against a strong northerly wind on her way into Portrush harbour, before turning for the finishing tine to overall first place in the... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber, has won the Institution's gold medal for the second time since the war began. He has won it for rescuing the crew of a trawler which had stranded on a sandbank in a gale. There were heavy snow...
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When Connie Richards, President of Redruth Ladies’ Lifeboat Guild, celebrated her 90th birthday, she requested donations to the RNLI instead of gifts. Together, they totalled £654 with Gift Aid. Pictured here is Connie’s birthday cake,...
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