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Category: Advertisement
Unusual IRB Service
THE Whitstable IRB performed an unusual service on 29th December, 1966 - in fact, no other IRB to date has had a similar service.
The Whitstable report stated: 'A passing taxi driver reported to Whitstable police that a...
Category: Services
Corrections
In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.
Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...
Category: Articles
Change of Title of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the " ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—founded in 1824 for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck;" they may not,...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats and Life-Buoys
UNDER the above heading the Board of Trade have issued a Circular, No. 646, July, 1873, which.is to come into action on the 1st January, 1874. It is supple- mentary to the 292nd Section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, which up to the...
Category: Articles
Two Fishing Smacks
At daybreak on the 20th. November the Life-boat Richard and Sarah was instrumental in saving two fishing smacks and their crews of 4 men each. These vessels were, prior to the arrival of the Life-boat, most critically situated, owing...
An Exploit of Sir William Hillary
The rescue of 62 lives from the City of Glasgow on the night of 19th October, 1825, when Hillary himself was washed overboard, and had his chest crushed and six ribs broken. This was one of three services for each of which he was awarded the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gifts of Chocolate
The Institution wishes to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree for their gifts of thirty tins of chocolate each, which have been sent for use in the Lifeboats. For a number of years these three...
Category: Donations
From Two East Londons.
On the same day the Institution received two gifts, each of two guineas, from masonic lodges. One gift had travelled a few miles, from East London, the other 6,000 miles, from East London in South Africa..
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
THK ton highest remittances received from Branches during the year 1st October, 1919, to 30th September, 1920, are JIB follows:— ±. (/ City of London Liverpool Bradford .
Manchester .
Glasgow...
Category: Branches