LIFE-BOAT HOUSE. LONDON, was decor- ated and illuminated in celebration of the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Patrons of the Institution.
Sixty life-boat stations were supplied with sets...
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During April and May Keith Donald raised over £5,800 for RNLI Christchurch branch from a sponsored walk the length of Scotland - a distance of 420 miles! Keith completed the marathon on 3 June, having walked all the way from Kirk... - View image in PDF
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To JOHN MATTHEWS, Coxswain of the Moelfre Life-boat, a silver watch for devotion to duty when the Life-boat was wrecked owing to breaking from her moorings during a very heavy N.E. gale, on the llth February, 1929.
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Hastings, Sussex. At 3.29 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the mechanic that an angling boat Petchick II had been sent to the aid of a small dinghy which was in distress three quarters of a mile...
CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — Information was brought to this Life-boat Station on the morning of the 14th February of a wreck on Skerries Island. The wind was blowing half a gale from S.W. at the time. The Lifeboat Ashtonian was immediately launched...
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 31st August the boats prosecuting the herring fishing at Peterhead proceeded to sea. During the night a strong breeze sprang up from the N.E. and raised a heavy sea, and the boats ran for the harbour. About 11...
CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coastguardman arrived and informed the coxswain...
LOWESTOFT.—At 6.20 A.M. on the 7th October the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a ship was ashore on the middle part.of the Holm Sand. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, were at once called together,...
DUNBAR.—While a moderate. E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the morning of the 23rd February, intelligence was received that a. large vessel, which was subsequently ascertained to be the fourmasted barque...