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Doodle-Bug
Margate, Kent. — At 8.33 in the evening of the 10th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat had burnt flares two and a half miles east of Margate, and at 8.40 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was launched....
Life-Boat Photographs In Birmingham
THE exhibition of life-boat photographs which was shown last year in London and Edinburgh was shown in Birming- ham from February 12th to 20th of this year, through the kindness of Messrs. Lewis's, Ltd., of Liverpool, Manchester and...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1956. 66 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 34 times and rescued 31 lives.
ANGLERS IN DISTRESS IN PLYMOUTH SOUND Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm...
Category: Services
More Than 150 Services of Thanksgiving Have Been Held Around Britain and Ireland In Norwich Cathedral the Rnli Standard Is Carried to the Altar Photograph By Court
More than 150 services of thanksgiving have been held around Britain and Ireland. In Norwich Cathedral the RNLI standard is carried to the altar. Photograph by Courtesy of Eastern Daily Press. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Liverpool* Were Followed at Hoylake In 1974 By a 37Ft 6In Rather Lifeboat Mary Gabriel
The Liverpool* were followed at Hoylake in 1974 by a 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat, Mary Gabriel.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A wild February night in 1923 sees the exhausted crew of Adolf Vinnen hauled to safety by breeches buoy
A wild February night in 1923 sees the exhausted crew of Adolf Vinnen hauled to safety by breeches buoy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
All In the Day's Work
LIFE-BOATS have other things to do besides the saving of life from shipwreck.
Among the islands off Scotland and Ireland their help is often asked, when rough weather makes impossible the use of ordinary boats. The most...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat In Verse
The Life-boat in Verse. An anthology covering a hundred years, a commentary by Sir John Gumming and Charles "' the Royal National Life-boat Institution by Hodder Selected with Vince. Published for & Stoughton. 25. 6d.MUCH verse...
Category: Poetry
In Fog Off Chesil Beach
ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...
Category: Services
A Pillar Collecting Box on the Cliffs at Sennen Longships Lighthouse Is In the Distance
A pillar collecting box on the cliffs at Sennen. Longships lighthouse is in the distance.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs