On the 2nd October the Life-boat Mary, on this station, was taken off by a volunteer crew to assist four fishing-cobles, which, while making for the harbour, were in much danger on account of the very heavy sea running round the pier-head....
telephonic message was received from the Coast- guard at Wick, stating that four fishing yawls were in distress in Wick Bay and making their way north. The sea j at the time was very heavy and the j weather was cold and hazy. ...
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.
Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...
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ON the day on which the International Life-boat display on the Thames finished, and the foreign Life-boats went down the river and out to sea, the Teesmouth Motor Life-boat started on a six weeks' cruise up the Thames. She was in charge...
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Here are just a few of the many warm communications received in response to our issue featuring the new RNLI memorial to those who have lost their lives attempting to save lives at sea:
My interest in lifeboats began when...
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Four of the programme sellers at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball held by the Central London Committee at the Dorchester Hotel last November: (I. to r.) Julia Kerr, Lula Wellard, Vanessa Bellamy and Jasmine Taylor. Such was the advertising... - View image in PDF
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Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...
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There was an added treat for three lads who won prizes in n lifeboat model-making competition. They went to Weston Park, near Newport, Salop, lo receive their awards from Lord Bradford, president of the Newport brunch of the RNLI. The boys... - View image in PDF
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Hearing, on Sunday, July 25, that MFV Mary Sue of Dublin, with five people on board, had engine failure one mile south of Puffin Island and needed help, Valentia's 52' Barnett lifeboat, Rowland Watts, slipped her moorings at 1820 and... - View image in PDF
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In the four years and nine months of war our life-boats have rescued 5661 lives, and have won 204 medals for gallantry..
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