Helicopter crash A MAYDAY distress call from the cockle boat Vallan reporting seeing a helicopter crash on Gat Sand, in the Wash, was intercepted by Yarmouth Coastguard at 1424 on Sunday June 26. A helicopter from RAF Coltishall just...
Can you imagine what life might have been like 200 years ago for children in the 19th century (1800-1899)? II was a lime when everything depended on how rich Iheir parents were. The government did little to help the poor who were trying to...
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1,072 Lives Rescued by the Twenty James Stevens Life-boats.
IN 1894 the Institution received under the will of the late Mr. James Stevens, of Birmingham, a sum of £50,000, to be spent on the construction of twenty...
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Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.
ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...
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On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...
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HER MAJESTY Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the Institution, will be the guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards meeting on May 15. She will address the meeting and present the awards for gallantry and...
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Jan. 17,1856.—The brig Bonnie Marie, of Nantes, was observed in the night to hare a signal of distress flying. The Portmadoc life-boat, which belongs to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, manned by 12 men, put off to the vessel's...
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Sea food: members of Largs Junior Chamber of Commerce appear remarkably unconcerned by what is clearly a severe case of rising damp during a recent dinner staged on the slipway of the lifeboat station. This chilling experience, devised... - View image in PDF
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Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
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THURSDAY, l11th April, 1912.
The Bight Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., was unanimously elected Chairman and SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution...
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