Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
THE hundred and fifteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 26th April. Over 2,500 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
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RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Lost and listing Volunteer lifeboat crews from Falmouth and The Lizard joined the rescue... - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 3rd August, 1865, THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
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Saturday, 15th May, 1897.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Caister, Norfolk. —At 5.20 in the morning, on the 22nd of November1950, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported that a vessel seemed to be in distress and aground on Scroby Elbow to the south-east. At 5.30 the life-boat Jose...
Caister, Norfolk. —At 11.14 in the afternoon, on the 17th of March, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was on the Barber Sands. At 1.30 the life- boat Jose Neville was launched in a smooth sea with a moderate south- westerly...
Over the next 50 years, thousands of people will find themselves in danger at sea. Now, thanks to the generosity of supporters, the RNLI's new class of lifeboat will be able to get to them quicker, and in harder-to reach...
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'1974 —A YEAR OF TRIUMPH' — His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, President RNLITHE WORD WHICH SEEMS to have been most readily used by people describing the RNLI's annual general meeting in 1975 was 'moving'. On page 30 we...
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