It is not often that a champion fighter pilot asks to look round one of our life-boats. In this picture, taken some time ago, but only recently made available to THE LIFE-BOAT, Group Captain Douglas Bader, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., the legless... - View image in PDF
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THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1961 has been won by Coxswain John Stonehouse of Teesmouth for the rescue of the crew of three of the yacht Sybil Kathleen on the 1st...
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Miss Heather ('Mickie') Allen with the carved shield presented to her on behalf of Cowes Base by boat builder Steve Simmonds at the opening of The Allen Centre.. - View image in PDF
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" WHAT is the Naval Reserve?" This is a question which was very frequently asked during the early part of the month of May of the present year; and, certainly, until the daily papers undertook the task of en- lightenment, the...
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Our coastlines may appear as fi rm lines on a map but they are constantly changing. A European Commission report in 2004 stated that over 17% of the UK and nearly 20% of the RoI coastline is eroding, challenging the very existence of some...
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Mrs. Montague Kavanagh, who has for four years organised the very successful Dublin spring sale, stripping her own stand on which she made £550 towards a sale total of nearly £2,500.. - View image in PDF
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THE following lines, which graphically describe the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by one of the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, were written by WILLIAM POTTER, a coast- guardman and coxswain of the Cahore Life-boat, on the...
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PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 31st August the boats prosecuting the herring fishing at Peterhead proceeded to sea. During the night a strong breeze sprang up from the N.E. and raised a heavy sea, and the boats ran for the harbour. About 11...
Do you know the three big targets we’re working towards as a lifesaving charity? As our Chairman Charles Hunter-Pease explained at our AGM in May, we aim to bring our entire all-weather lifeboat fleet up to a speed of 25 knots by 2019,...
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