On the morning of the 26th March these two Life-boats were~ again engaged on similar service, fourteen fishing-boats being in danger off Gourdon, and four off Johnshaven..
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 12.38 p.m.
on 20th December, 1968, the coastguard reported that a sick man aboard the trawler Jamaica required medical attention. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick, with a doctor on board, slipped...
It has been decided that in future reports of inshore rescue boat services also qualify for the Institution's annual press award for the best newspaper report of a life-boat service..
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It is regretted that a gift made to the Port Talbot branch of £700 was inadvertently left out of the Supplement to Year Book 1967 listing branch collections for 1966..
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. . . But before Melfort's other three crew members could be rescued in the same way the yacht, pounding on rocks, began to break up and founder.. - View image in PDF
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Bill Owen reaches deep into the lottery drum to find a winner after Ian Wallington, assistant appeals secretary, has given the tickets a good spin.. - View image in PDF
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W. R. (Rob) Corran, coxswain of the Douglas, Isle of Man, lifeboat from 1970 to 1974. Mr Corran joined the crew in 1932, serving as second coxswain from 1940 to 1970..
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EVER READY The Ever Ready Co.
(G.B.) Ltd., manufacturers of Portable Lightin and Dry Batteries congratulate the R.N.LI. on ISO years of dedicated service..
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DOCTOR'S CALL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.20 a.m. on iyth December, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a young boy needed to be taken to hospital at South Uist. There were light north-easterly airs with a...
Waveney 44-020, John Fison stationed at Harwich, was built in 1980 and incorporates the RNLI's modifications to the original design.. - View image in PDF
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