LONG NIGHT SEARCH Hastings, Sussex. At 7 p.m. on 9th February, 1964, the mechanic told the honorary secretary that an angling dinghy was overdue, and it was decided to launch the life-boat. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze with a...
CREW TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL AGROUND Swanage, Dorset. At 3.9 on the morning of the 10th of March, 1962, the coastguard at St. Aldhelm's Head informed the assistant honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on the rocks under the...
THE RNLI Midnight Matinee to be held at the Victoria Palace in London, which had to be postponed, will now take place on Friday, March 8, 1974, and it should be possible to include full details in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
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Thursday, 2nd June, 1853. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., in the Chair.
Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Reported the death, on the...
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THURSDAY, 1st September, 1881.
Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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By GEORGE F. SHEE, Secretary of the Institution.
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IN the course of many years' experience of the organization of efforts on behalf of the Life-boat Cause I have met again and again Honorary...
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Ix April 1954 it was decided to make certain changes in the appointments of the life-boat district inspectors in view of the impending retirement of the Southern District Inspector. At the same time it was decided to reorganise the districts...
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Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on a small rock islet...
Duke of Kent to present awards The Institution's President, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, will address the meeting of the annual presentation of awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in May. He will also present bravery...
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Lt E. Gough, the RNLI's staff officer (Communications), sent the message Uniform Whisky One (UW1) to the Boys' Brigade at Aigburth, Liverpool, after they had raised £36 by mounting a display about the sea, doing figure marching...
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