The Lady Provost of Glasgow, Mrs Ann Irons, draws the winning ticket in the Scottish Region for a Volvo car. Standing beside her is His Grace the Duke of Atholl, convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. - View image in PDF
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 21st day of March, 1891. The Most Honourable the MARQUIS of HAR- TINGTON, M.P., in the Chair, the following...
Category: Annual Reports
Four saved from grounded crabber In a letter from the chief of operations, Padstow lifeboat crew has been praised for a service which 'was carried out in dangerous conditions' and which 'called upon each of the crew's...
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1825. JOHN HENRY HECKER, Esq., Finsbury Square 1,000 0 0 1830. WILLIAM PRIOR, Esq., Herne Hill, Camberwell 1,827 14 8 1830. WILLIAM WALCOT, Esq., Oundle, Northamptonshire 50 0 0 1832. Mrs. DUPPA,...
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FEBRUARY 28TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A bomber aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but another message came that she “ had been accounted for “, and the life-boat was recalled. - Paid permanent crew.
WHEN one travels from Norwich, roughly north west, one soon begins to sense that the sea is not far away. The trees on exposed ground have a stunted look caused by the prevailing wind: their limbs are bent in a certain...
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Today's Exmouth lifeboat crew is very much a family affair - six members of two families make up nearly a quarter of the entire crew.
Among the 25 strong crew is Coxswain Keith Graham with his two sons and the three...
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R.A.F. officers examining the airborne life-boat on the deck of the Danish trawler Betty FN 41 at Great Yarmouth in July, 1943.
The trawler crew had slashed the inflated whale back bags at bow and stern to deflate them. The... - View image in PDF
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Although we are well into the project, there will inevitably be many changes to the boat before it enters service (many of which we are planning already), so don't be surprised if the FSB2 delivered to station m 2005 looks a little...
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RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...
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