HRH The Princess Anne, has recently had the opportunity to inspect two of the RNLI's most up-to-date lifeboats. At Brixham (left), on a visit to open the new HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre, she walked down King's Quay to... - View image in PDF
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FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KIXG EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
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North Sunderland Life-Boat Arrives Back In Harbour After A Fruitless 12-Hour Search For A Missing Man. - View image in PDF
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Scarborough, Yorkshire.—17th November.
A motor coble and a rowing boat had been overtaken by a sudden storm, but reached safety unaided.— Rewards, £36 10s. 6d..
On his retirement after 30 years service as honorary treasurer, first at Exeter and then Exmouth, Leslie Aplin was presented with a clock from Exmouth branch by honorary secretary Len Smith (I.) and an inscribed shield by John Atterton (r.),... - View image in PDF
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Cruise 2002 from#49 Page©3 Moy's Cruise 2002 brochure is hot off the press. There are more sailings than ever before, a greater range of destinations, and an additional cruise ship. This expanded programme is our response to the...
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Close to Mount Cook, New Zealand, stands a R.N.L.I. collecting box framed by a life-belt.
It has been placed there by Mr. Duncan Darroch, a landscape artist who has a cabin nearby.
Considerable sums... - View image in PDF
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Twenty-five years' service: Commander Bruce Cairns, RD, RNR, retired as chief of operations at the end of 1986. He joined the lifeboat service as a district inspector of lifeboats in 1961 and served in the Irish, South East and Southern... - View image in PDF
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50 Years Ago The following two items were first published in THE LIFEBOAT of February, 1935.
Stories of a Life-boat Day.
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors...
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The Life - boat Queensbury was launched about 7.30 A.M. on the morning of the 9th June to render assistance to the fishing fleet, which had to return to harbour on account of the weather.
The cobles left for the fishing...