SINCE 1924 Mr. Timothy Healy, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, has been the Patron of the Irish Free State District of the Institution, and when he accepted the Patronship he issued an earnest appeal to the people of the Free...
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GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—About 3.50 P.M.
on the 14th May the Coxswain's attention was drawn to a small boat which was apparently in distress about a mile from the shore. With promptness the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat were...
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5O years ago From the pages of the LIFEBOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 7 of March 1942 30 MONTHS OF WAR In the first thirty months of war Life-boats have rescued 4630 lives. They have rescued more lives in thirty months of war than in the last...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland - At 7.56 a.m. on 28th July, 1966, the IRB seemed to have broken down on a service call to the tanker Ross Cleveland.
The life-boat Grace Darling was launched at 8 o'clock in a light...
The caring approach to a sensitive subject THERE COMES A TIME IN LIFE when it's natural to consider your own funeral....
and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them.
Not the...
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'One of the Dutch boats described was a fast rescue launch built at the yards of Messrs. Vosper Thorneycroft in England, with a speed of 28 knots' (for more details see page 170).. - View image in PDF
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BUILDING OF the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline is nearing completion at William Osborne's yard at Littlehampton; all will be ready for a spring launching.
With principal members in place,...
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The Port Talbot IRB going to the aid of a man trapped under a capsized dinghy. The rescued man alongside the IRB supported by the swimmer. A specially equipped swimmer bringing to safety the rescued man.. - View image in PDF
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WE regret that in the list of holders of the Gold Badge in the abridged Annual Report for 1928, the name of Mr. B. J. Kirkham, Honorary Secretary i at New Brighton, was unfortunately omitted. The omission was pointed out in time to be...
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