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Gallant Service Rendered By the Holy Island Lifeboat "Grace Darling" on the 13th February, 1896

Date: August 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 181

ON the morning of the 13th February all the Holy Island fishing-boats, with one exception, were out fishing, when the sea I rose rapidly, and at 9 o'clock the Rev. D. Bryson, Vicar of Holy Island and Honorary Secretary of the Holy Island...

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Accidents to Life-Boats

Date: February 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 103

A RECENT accident to one of our English fleet of Life-boats has once more enlisted the sympathies of the British people, and called forth their admiration of the humanity, courage, and endurance displayed by our sea-coast boatmen in their en...

Category: Articles

Special Life-Boat Funds

Date: May 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 224

CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.

Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS. K.G.

Vice-Patrons— The Most Hon. the MARQUIS OF Ripon, K.O.

The Right Hon. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,...

Category: Accounts

Hyannis to Rockland from Page 233

Date: Summer 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 477

Hyannis to Rockland from page 233 were asked regarding the operation of a voluntary lifeboat service outside Government control. The predominantly shore based role of HM Coastguard was a fact which many of the audience found hard to...

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High Stakes

Date: Winter 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 590

For generations, people have been tombstoning off cliffs. On 22 July last year, five boys ignored warnings and jumped into treacherous waters

Towards the end of a long day’s work on Portreath Beach, Cornwall, Senior...

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The Use of the Lead

Date: January 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 19

THE great necessity of constantly using the lead or sounding has been recognised from the earliest period in the history of navigation.

In the present day, when so many thousand vessels are engaged in carrying on the...

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The Life-Boat Regulations

Date: April 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 76

THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- srmrnoN, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...

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Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

some r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d WEST HIGHLAND SHORES by Maldwin Drummond Published by Nautical Books at £19.95 ISBN 07136 5860 6 Maldwin Drummond is not only a Vice President on the RNLI's Committee of...

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The Record of 1925

Date: March 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 286

Terrible Winter Storms.

THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...

Category: Annual Reports

The Fundraisers

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...

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