Coxswain William (Bill) Sheader's family has a long tradition of service with the life-boats and the local fishing fleet, one of whose boats is pictured entering the harbour with the usual flock of seagulls.. - View image in PDF
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Weymouth, Dorset - At 11.5 p.m.
on 27th August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with five children on board was overdue. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.20 in...
THURSDAY, 5th May, 1887.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
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Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read and...
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Summer is fast approaching and the RNLI’s lifeguards are dusting down their rescue tubes, ready for another season on the UK’s most popular beaches.
This year, they’ve crossed the Irish Sea and will be patrolling in...
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THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
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The distance between Donaghadee, Co Down and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, is approximately 22 miles and is one of the trickiest sea crossings in UK waters. On one Saturday in July 1985, after waiting a week for a favourable weather forecast,... - View image in PDF
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Last spring the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum at Green- wich, and the Museum's director, Mr.
Frank Carr, decided to arrange a special life-boat and life-saving exhibition.
To the...
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MEMBERSHIP is increasing steadily and at present totals over 14,000. Insignia sales have been growing in recent months, and we hope that we are now producing good quality articles at reasonable cost. We are aware that the 8-inch flags...
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WHITBY.—Two fishing-cobles belonging to this port, the Star of Peace and the Mary Ann, were observed to be making for the harbour on the evening of the 27th July. On account of the heavy sea and the ebb tide running out it was seen that...