Walton and Frinton, Essex - at 10.48 a.m. on 3oth July, 1967, it was learnt that a motor cruiser with engine trouble had made fast to the Kentish Knock lightvessel and that the master of the lightvessel had requested that the lifeboat tow...
We've been voted Road Rescue Best Buy for the 4th consecutive time by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine. We also recover trailers of any length. That's why the RNLI made us its official membership motoring rescue scheme...
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1932.
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UNDER the new House-to-House Collections Act, which came into operation on the 1st March, 1940, all collections made from house to house or door to door are controlled by regulations and licences issued by the police.
The...
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Right: a memorial to the disaster erected at St Annes in 1888. - View image in PDF
photograph (r) by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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IT has been repeatedly suggested that we, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION might publish a list of those officers of has been awarded. We accordingly the Royal Navy and Marines now living to place the same before our readers. It...
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Leslie French, seen here (/.) with Mrs Charles Hunting Simpson, chairman of Fulmer and Iver branch, gave a presentation of excerpts from Shakespeare at Eton College on Sunday, January 18. £.400 was raised for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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This is not the start of the tall ships race but the excitement and competition felt at the start of the Pimlico Boat Race was comparable with it. Thirty-six 'boats' took part, each with a sponsored crew of four who raced their way... - View image in PDF
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Whilst reading the winter 1999/00 issue of the lifeboat, I came across the piece about the refurbished lifeboat Queen Victoria which was said to be thought as the oldest RNLI lifeboat in existence.
It is not the oldest boat... - View image in PDF
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For tlie Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Services of the Life-boats of the Institution in 1875.
A tice, cu tter, of Yarmon th—as-...
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