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Royal favour
Sixty years ago, when HM The Queen succeeded her father, she became the eighth sovereign to take on the role of RNLI Patron. For nearly 200 years, successive kings, queens and consorts have acted as figurehead for the...
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Yes I'D Do It All Again By Rosemarie Ide
IT WAS ONE of those glorious days. A day to be taken out and inspected and admired now and then in years to come.
It would make one feel warm and good all over again. A glad-to-be-alive day.
The sun was...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1904
THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRASSEY, K.C.B., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. LOBD BRASSEY, ILC.B.
Seconded by the Eight Hon.
LORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON.
1. That ...
Category: Meetings
Pictured at Bottom: the Enniskillen Crew and the Atlantic 21 Lifeboat Bienwatch on the Enniskillen Inland Waterways
Pictured at bottom: The Enniskillen crew and the Atlantic 21 lifeboat Bienwatch on the Enniskillen inland waterways Photo: Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Calendar for 1949
ME. H. JENKINS, the Lowestoft photographer, whose photographs of lifeboats will be familiar to readers of The Life-boat (one of them will be found on page 212) has, for the eleventh year, produced a fishing fleet calendar. It has fourteen...
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Shaving for the Life-Boats
THE Institution has received a gift of over £14 from the chief engineer of a steamer. In addition to his work as engineer, he acts as ship's barber.
For these services he charges nothing, but asks his clients to...
Category: Donations
Darling facts
Grace Horsley Darling was born on 24 November 1815 in her grandparents’ cottage in Bamburgh. She was the seventh child of Thomasin and William Darling.
William was Lighthouse Keeper on Brownsman Island. Grace and her eight...
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REMEMBERING PRINCESS VICTORIA
31 January 1953. A storm is building that will cause one of the UK’s worst natural disasters. Despite the gale warnings, at 7.45am the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria begins her regular passage across the Irish Sea. She will never...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Today's lifeboatmen Coxswain Michael Grant of Selsey joined the crew in 1960 and served as second coxswain from 1972 to 1978, becoming the station's full-time coxswain on 1 November 1978.
He was awarded the Thanks...
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