Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 9.35 a.m.
on 14th August, 1969, the honorary secretary reported that red flares had been sighted in the vicinity of Nave island. The life-boat Francis W.
Wotherspoon of Paisley...
by Colin Watson Unusual lighting picks out the details on the Bangor (Co Down) Atlantic 21 class lifeboat as she takes up station astern of the station's all-weather lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.
The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...
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LAST February, as already reported in The Life-boat, the Hythe life-boat crew gave an entertainment. It was their second. The first had taken place two years before. It had been modestly called a concert, but proved to be such an original...
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Broughty Ferry (Dundee): Before the naming ceremony began a souvenir programme was presented to the Duke of Kent by Catherine Piggot (right), daughter of Crew Member Alastair Piggot. After the ceremony Coxswain John Jack and his crew took... - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1933 .... 63,450 A Remarkable Life-boat...
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Circumnavigate the world without ever leaving London - on 25 September the RNLI is cramming the entire planet into the confines of Battersea!. - View image in PDF
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BUDEHAVEN.—A new life-boat, on Mr PEAKE'S design, has been stationed at Budehaven on the north coast of Cornwall by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Her dimensions are, length 27 ft., beam...
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The Norwegian steamer Mi'm which went ashore in the Orkneys on 9th November, 1939. - View image in PDF
The Stromness life-boat rescued 22 of her crew, and a local boat rescued II.. - View image in PDF
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.55 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties one mile east of Tynemouth North Point. At 12.10 the life-boat...