D class in search for cliff fall Victim Borth-West Division Borth 's Dclass inflatable is pictured under the cliffs about half a mile from the station on 10 June 1989, co-ordinating the helicopter evacuation of a young girl who had...
EVEN the most sanguine supporters of the "Life-boat Saturday" movement cannot fail to be gratified with the remarkable manner in which this popular organisation, aided by the Ladies' Committees, formed as an auxiliary for...
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During the storms of the past ye «r the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION contributed to the saving of 1121 live: from various shipwrecks—Hatty Paper.
O ALL ye who sit in comfort By the brightly-blazing fire, Do you ever...
Category: Poetry
Broken mast A RED BAY CREW MEMBER, N. Murray, saw from his home a sailing dinghy in trouble on Saturday, June 12. He informed the deputy launching authority and the call out was signalled at 1915.
The ILB launched three...
SECOND CALL TO YACHT At 7 p.m. on 8th May, 1964, the honorary secretary was informed that the yacht Quinquereme had broken away from her moorings and was adrift in the middle of the straits—a potential danger to shipping. As the two local...
Twin brothers, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I.) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, met aboard their lifeboats when Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
SEA-TITANS bold, with hearts that know not fear, Though wild waves billows rave, leap and clam'roua No care have they, nor thought of dangers near, When going forth, poor shipwrecked lives to save.
Through gulfs of...
Category: Poetry
THE RIGHT HON. LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, K.T., P.O., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by ADMIRAL CHATFIELD, C.B.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed, and...
Category: Meetings
THE subscribers and friends of the | At the meeting of the Committee of ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION- Management next following the death will have heard with great regret of Sir Edward Birkbeck, held on the that Sir Edward Birkbeck,...
Category: Obituaries
Annual Meetings.
BOURNEMOUTH.—On 2nd February, 1923, the Mayor (Alderman. C. H. Cartwright) in the chair. The report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, showed that the total receipts amounted to £590, as...
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