Exhausting Cliff Service THE Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was...
Classification of service launches of life-boats for 7970 compared with 7969 Class —Naval vessels —Foreign going merchant vessels —Home trade merchant vessels —Commercial fishing vessels —Powered pleasure craft —Sailing pleasure craft...
Category: Services
(Above) Delegates from 25 countries met in conference at the Hotel Atlantic, Kijkduin, near the Hague.. - View image in PDF
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Lt E. Gough, the RNLI's staff officer (Communications), sent the message Uniform Whisky One (UW1) to the Boys' Brigade at Aigburth, Liverpool, after they had raised £36 by mounting a display about the sea, doing figure marching...
Category: Donations
Four inshore rescue boats leaving the Cowes Repair Centre for delivery to coastal stations.. - View image in PDF
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Left: Don endures the hair-raising event and, above, as he used to look.. - View image in PDF
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SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Rescues by IRBs in April were undertaken by the following stations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were...
Category: Services
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded collectively to the crew of the Swanage life-boat for the rescue of a man who had been stranded in a cave for more than two days.
At about 9 o'clock...
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The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...
Category: Articles
Thursday, 15th September, 1927.
Sir GODFREY. BAROTG, Bt., in the Chair, Ik-ported the receipt of the following special contributions : — £ s. d.
Civil Service Life- boat Fund (per Mr. H. A. Clark) in...
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