NORTH DEAL.—On the 11th November, while a heavy S.S. W. gale was blowing, signals of distress were observed, whereupon the Life-boat's crew assembled, and after some delay, on account of the water being low at the time, the boat was...
History is repeated as HRH The Duke of Kent helps launch the Sennen Cove lifeboat The Four Boys from her position at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF
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Members of the Thurso lifeboat crew are presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother after the naming ceremony of the station's new Arun class lifeboat. (Photo Aberdeen Press and Journal). - View image in PDF
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The Queen Mother (then Duchess of York) in 1926 at the naming ceremony of the Watson Motor lifeboat John Russell at Montrose, one of the oldest RNLI lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF
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As readers of The Lifeboat know, we have for some time been urging on the shipping community the claims of the Institution to their generous support, since it maintains a national service in which they are more directly interested than any...
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FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
THE beautiful obverse of this medal, executed by L. C. WYON, Esq., represents the bust of QUEEN VICTORIA, Her Majesty's locks gracefully waving and gathered in a knot behind...
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THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
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When the cross channel hovercraft Princess Margaret collided with the harbour arm at Dover in bad weather on the afternoon of March 30,1985, the relief Arun class lifeboat, A. J. R. and L. G.
Uridge, on temporary duty at... - View image in PDF
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matters connected with the sea must necessarily be of deep interest to the population of a great maritime nation such as ours, dependent to so great an extent, even for the common necessaries of life, on those that " go down to the sea...
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The first of the three Barnett- Stromness model lifeboats to be 'commissioned', seen as though launching down a slipway with its proud 'coxswain', just three days short of his eighth birthday. He has called the model Falmouth... - View image in PDF
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