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Lifeboat Classified
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Three Fishing Cobles
In the month of March the Whitburn life-boat was launched to the assistance of the crews of three fish- ing cobles, each with 3 men on board, which were caught in a strong easterly wind, a high surf running on the beach at the time.
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE LIFE-BOAT Christmas card and the calendar for 1939 will have the above picture reproduced on them in colours.
The picture shows a modern motor life-boat of the Watson type being launched down a slipway. It has been...
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Walter Cox
No 40, Nelson Road, Wimbledon, has become a mecca for model railway enthusiasts from all over England when Walter Cox opens his garden to the public for one day each summer to show off his OO gauge model railway in aid of the RNLI. The Mayor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Days In 1944
In the fifth year of the war life-boat flag days raised £131,829. That is £657 more than in 1943 and nearly three times as much as in 1939, the last year of peace. lu each of the five years of war the figure has been a record. The...
Category: Articles
A Fine Service at Holyhead
ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories On A Wave and A Prayer A History of the Youghal Lifeboat Station by Brendan O'Driscoll published by the author at CIR9.50 The port of Youghal (pronounced 'Yawl') on Ireland's beautiful southern...
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Dr. J. Iredale, Honorary Secretary, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
By the death of Dr. J. Iredale, of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, on 8th Sep- tember last, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. Dr.
Iredale became the Honorary Secretary of the Station at Mablethorpe...
Category: Obituaries
An Income Tax Concession. How Subscribers Can Increase Their Contributions Without Cost to Themselves
WE wish to bring to the notice of sub- scribers to the Institution a method by which those who already give generous subscriptions can still further increase their support without any additional cost to...
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Atlantic Watch: Ireland's Western Lifeboat Stations Arranmore Galway Bay and Valentia By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
'The wind was of hurricane force, with fierce squalls accompanied by snow and sleet and the seas were mountainous.
' ... 'It took two hours to board the lifeboat and three times the boarding boat was driven back...
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