JUST AS at a time of family celebration, wherever its members may be, their thoughts will turn to home, so in the spring of 1974 the thoughts of the RNLI and its friends must inevitably turn to Douglas; the little seaport on the Isle of Man...
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Pictured ( l - r ) : Mrs Maureen McLoughlin, President of Howth Ladies Guild; Mrs Jane Spears who delivered the lifeboat to the RNLI on behalf of the late Mr Roy Barker; and Mrs Geraldine Coulter. - View image in PDF
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Mudeford, Hampshire. At 6.45 p.m.
on 23rd July, 1964, the honorary secretary's son learned that someone was clinging to a dinghy and calling for heJp.
At 6.47 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
'T'HE great services which were rendered by the Life-boats to the Allied cause during the War have been referred to in precious numbers of THE LIFE-BOAT. The full list of the services in the last year of the War, during which rewards...
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Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Reported to the September Meeting.
Ramsgate, Kent. — The Norwegian steamer Lovoy, of Haugesund, while bound from...
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New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
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Brisk winds did not spoil the sunshine in Walmer on 11 May when 200 guests attended the naming of the station's new D class lifeboat.
Len Stephens, honorary treasurer of the Welling branch handed the lifeboat over to... - View image in PDF
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Aberdeen ON-1248:Jun27.Jul2 D-536 Junl. Jul2. JulB, Julie Abersoch B-582:Jun24.Jul20,Jul25.Jul28.
Jul3t{x2) Aberystwyth B-704 Jun18.Jun20.Jun2l.Jul1, Jul5. Jul7. Jul22. Ju126, Jul27.
Jul2g Jul30 Achill...
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...