NOVEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE, AND MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. At 8.45 in the evening of November 16th the Kirkcudbright life-boat Morison Watson was launched to the help of Hopper No. 2, of Preston, which was reported...
Captain Hans Hansson, Director of the Swedish Lifeboat Service, speaking at the annual meeting. On the right of the picture is the Duchess of Kent.. - View image in PDF
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Mr. Benjamin James Kirkham, of New Brighton, who died on 9th January, at the age of seventy-four, was one of the oldest and most valued of the Institution's honorary workers.
He had been associated with it for some...
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4 November 2011: It was a big moment for 17-year-old Matt Ratcliffe, Tobermory lifeboat’s newest and youngest crew member, when his pager went off for the first time. The crew towed home a fishing vessel that had...
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IT is now proposed to say a few words on the stowage and care of the gear, and though the remarks are addressed in the first place to the Coxswains, it is hoped that they will not be altogether without interest to the general...
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 9.15 in the evening of the 6th of June, 1948, the police reported that a yacht was drag- ging her moorings in a dangerous posi- tion at the mouth of Lymington river, with one man on board, and the motor life-boat...
Matthew Drury handing over a cheque for £500 on behalf of pupils of Melbourn Village College to Pat Elbourn, honorary secretary of Royston and District branch, and Brian Fitch, assistant district organising secretary... - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31st, 1938 - - - - - 65,625 Capsizing of the St....
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WHEN RICHARD EVANS, the former Moelfre coxswain, concluded his reply to the toast of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at a dinner given by the Corporation of London in Guildhall on April 26 to mark 'The Year of the Lifeboat',...
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