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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter) Founded in 1824 supported solely by voluntary contributions
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Category: Advertisement
Boiled Crabs (Left) Sold By Four Young Helpers Katie Douglas Alasdair Mcdougle Gary Hall and Anne Douglas Was Just One Attraction at Seahouses Harbour Fete Last
Boiled crabs (left), sold by four young helpers, Katie Douglas, Alasdair McDougle, Gary Hall and Anne Douglas, was just one attraction at Seahouses harbour fete last August Bank Holiday when £3,822 was raised for the RNLI. Mrs L. F. L.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whelk Boats
The whelk boats belonging to Sheringham left for the fishing grounds at about 6 o'clock in the morning on the 8th April. The weather was then fine, with a moderate wind and a moderately smooth sea.
About 8 o'clock...
Index to the Gift Life- Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
{The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-hoats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 126. Draper, Daniel J., Life-boat Hounsfield, Mrs., 78. Peach, Misses Frances and A. F. H.. 133. Fund, 136. [late, 141. Howard...
Category: Donations
Pride of the Ocean
ST. ANDREW'S.—The fishing boat Pride of the Ocean, belonging to St. Andrew's, and returning from fishing at Shetland, was seen making for the harbour, at about 5 A.M., on the 9th April, during a strong N.E. wind, and a very rough sea...
The Life-Boat
(See Diagrams on next page.) The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Gardepee
— On the 27th October the s.s. Gardepee, bound from Middlesborough to Nantes with a cargo of iron rails, stranded on the Holm Sands. As the Life-boatmen thought they would be able to save the vessel they obtained permission to launch the...
Launching and Recovery PART II: BEACH LAUNCH by Edward Wake-Walker RNLI Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
ON A CLEAR DAY at Walmer the unaccustomed visitor can be forgiven for doubting his own knowledge of geography when he sees the bold outline of France, seemingly only a pebble's throw across the curving surface of the English Channel....
Category: Articles
A Thrilling Rescue Among the Rocks
ON Saturday, 19th November last, the St. Helier life-boat took part in another midnight rescue two months after that which earned Coxswain Thomas King a Gold Medal and his crew bronze medals, last September 14th. This time the station...
Category: Services
The S.S. Mayflower
APRIL 22ND. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At 5.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that the S.S. Mayflower, of Liverpool, loaded with stone, on passage from Penmaenmawr, North Wales, to Liverpool, had gone aground on East Hoyle Bank at...