The Prince of Wales, Gravesend, crew rowing down Woolwich Reach in the 5th RNLI annual sponsored marathon row, Gravesend to Greenwich and back, August 18, 1974. It all started with Eric Lupton's idea in 1970. Twelve boats rowed from... - View image in PDF
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THE THREE CORNISHMEN THREE men of Polruan, Mr. Lloyd Dunn, Mr. John Curtis and Mr. Anthony Raymond, have all received letters of thanks from the R.N.L.I. for the parts they played in rescuing four survivors when a dinghy capsized on 7th...
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By SHEILA MARY WICKS (10|), The Heston Junior Mixed School, Heston, Middlesex.
"A GALLANT RESCUE." BY THE COXSWAIN OP A LIFE-BOAT.
IT was a dark, stormy night in the middle of a terrible...
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.—On the after- noon of the 6th December, information was received here that a large vessel was in a very perilous position in the bay, and the life-boat Richard Lewis, at Penzance, was at once got in readiness, in case her services should...
Norden Primary School raised £250 for the RNL1 by collecting newspapers and organising fairs and competitions.
Philip Shepherd handed over the cheque to Brian Stevenson, ADOS North West, with Mrs... - View image in PDF
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
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Cloughey, Co. Down.— About three o'clock in the morning of the 7th of March, 1950, information was received from the Tara coastguard and a farmer that a vessel was on the rocks near the South Rock Lightvessel. The life-boat Herbert John...
LLANDUDNO.—On Sunday, the 12th April, a message was received by telephone from Colwyn Bay, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, stating that a brigantine was showing signals of distress. She was lying at anchor about two and a half miles...
1. Three of the seven ex-lifeboats on passage to Dunkirk - from front to rear: Dowager, Tyne Star and Stenoa.. - View image in PDF
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Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, and Barra Island, Hebrides.—On the night of the 26th October the Latvian steamer Helena Faulbaums, of Riga, bound light from Liverpool to Blyth, was caught in a sudden and exceptionally severe storm near Jura...