High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...
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AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 10th day of April, 1856, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Deputy-Chairman of the Institution, and Chairman of Lloyd's Register...
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" Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked and Rescued by a Life-boat.
Describe Your Experiences." THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for...
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Dear Reader Welcome to the summer 2006 issue of the Lifeboat. Do let us know what you think of it.
Have a look at the 'News' and 'Dispatches' sections to get up to date with the RNLI family then linger...
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Pangbourne branch is affiliated to Weymouth lifeboat station, and a framed colour photograph of the 54' Arun Tony Vandervell, presented by Weymouth crew, was unveiled at the Swan Inn, Pangbourne, on December 8 by Chantal d'Orthez,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...
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DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, Sunday January 26, 1986: a woman had suffered a suspected heart attack aboard the Belfast to Liverpool ferry, St Colum I. At 0313 Douglas lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson class, R. A. Colby Cubbin No 1, launched with the... - View image in PDF
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A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...
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A CHRISTMAS FAIR was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, lent by the City Council, on 24th November.
The fair was opened by the Countess of Warwick. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided, supported...
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