Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...
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Fig 5: Medal Of 1862 Obverse Die. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 24TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. An ex-coxswain, an exsecond coxswain and two farm workers helped to make up the life-boat’s crew. - Rewards, £20...
In October, the Largs Lifeboat Fundraising Branch welcomed outgoing RNLI Chair, Charles Hunter-Pease, to speak at their annual lunch where he was presented with a special cake decorated with a model of the Largs lifeboat to mark his...
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To the help of a flooded farm. - View image in PDF
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FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA. - View image in PDF
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THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
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The Archbishop of York and The Bridlington Crew. - View image in PDF
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At 1 A.M. on the 14th June, during a moderate W.S.W. wind and overcast weather, signal guns and rockets were observed from the Gull Lightship, and a flare was also seen in the direction of theGoodwin Sands. The Life-boat Bradford and the...
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain George Lamey, of Clovelly. He has been an officer of the life-boat for eighteen years, and coxswain for the past twelve years. In 1944 he was awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum for...
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