An organisation funded totally by voluntary donations has a very special relationship with its friends.
Finding supporters, expanding and staying in touch with the supporter community is vital to the RNLI's future - as...
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(See Diagram* on next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.. in the Chair.
1.—Moved by His ROYAL HIGHNESS :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide last page for this...
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THE new Life-boat for Selsey—of the Watson Cabin type—which during last winter was on temporary service at Cromer, made a trip up the Thames in July, after undergoing overhaul at the Storeyard, before she went to her station. She was manned...
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IN THE January number of THE LIFE-BOAT details were given of some of the R.N.L.I.'s plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its foundation in 1974. To these may now be added an important appeal which is being made to civic heads...
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Falmouth, Cornwall. — Just before 6.30 A.M. on the morning of the 5th August, 1938, information was received from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, but there was a thick fog. The tide...
Again, on the 7th December the same life-boat went off and saved the crew of 15 men from the S.S. Harmonia, of Hamburg, which was totally wrecked on a sandbank near Brancaster. There was a heavy gale blowing from the N.E., and a high sea run...
On the 12th June the brig Ann, of Blyth, parted her cables in a S.E. gale, in Alnmouth Bay, and was driven ashore. The small four-oared self-righting life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was quickly launched in a heavy...
Lord Inchcape, chairman of the City of London appeal, escorts the Lord Mayor of London, Col Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe, GBE ID, up the beautiful staircase of the Fishmongers' Hall to the banquetting hall. With them (centre front) is John... - View image in PDF
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His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, president of the RNLI, pictured at the helm of Tynemouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat George and Olive Turner during a tour of the north-east last November, photograph by courtesy of the Newcastle... - View image in PDF
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