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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— On the 13th May the s.s. Turrethill, of Newcastle- on - Tyne, whilst bound from Goole with a cargo of coal to Poole, Dorset- shire, capsized when off Southwold. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing at the time, with a rough sea, and unhappily...
HRH The Duke of Kent arrives at Aldeburgh lifeboat station, accompanied by the branch chairman, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Mills and . . .. - View image in PDF
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THE RNLI is to establish a new lifeboat station at Alderney in the Channel Islands and within the next few months a 33ft Brede class lifeboat will be sent there for an initial trial period of twelve months.
There was a...
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Broughty Ferry, Angus.—On the night of the 20th January the life-boat stood by Abertay light-vessel.— Rewards, £13 Is.
(A full account of this service and of the rescue of the light-vessel's crew by the life-boat...
A Record of Services to over Sixty Vessels.A Record of Services WE continue the list of effective services sercarried out by Life-boats during 1926 — services where lives have been rescued or help given — with the names of vessels and 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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At 7 P.M. on the 19th February information was received at Newlyn that a vessel was ashore at Penberth about seven miles to the westward, and that the life-saving apparatus had been called out to her assistance. The wind, which was...
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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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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