Wives of the crew of the Arbroath, Angus, life-boat being presented to Princess Marina at the naming ceremony on 21st May, 1958.. - View image in PDF
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Rupert, lifeboat collector par excellence: Captain and Mrs F. Wilson's African grey parrot does his trick of duty at their front gate. Being a talkative bird, he is very persuasive and in just three weeks last August, collected more than... - View image in PDF
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Three stages in the service by the Dungeness life-boat in June, 1966, to the sloop Idle Moment after she had spent an anxious night riding out a storm—the life-boat alongside the sloop, the sloop safe in Folkestone harbour, and Coxswain T. R... - View image in PDF
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As it is to fishermen that we must look in most cases to man our life-boats in time of need, it seems desirable to place on record in the pages of this Journal, the number of fishing-boats at each station around the coasts of England, and...
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ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, THURSDAY MAY 22 'The RNLI . . . the finest club in the country . . .' MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE gathered at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames on Thursday May 22 for the...
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DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
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Poole: After HRH Crown Prince Harald of Norway, Honorary Colonel of the Royal Marines, had visited Commando units at Hamworthy on November 4 he embarked in one of the Institution's latest 52ft Arun class lifeboats and was brought round... - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 8.2 A.M. the Berry Head coastguard reported a small sailing vessel two miles E.N.E,. from Berry Heed making S.O.S. signals, A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
At 11.19 a.m. on 27th August, 1967, the ship's agent at Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board the s.s. Knossos of Greece. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station,...
AT a luncheon of the Rotary Club at Deptford in July last an address was given by the District Organizing Secre- tary for Greater London. In the course of the address he referred to the fact that the engines used in Life-boats wereof the...
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