AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the Birthday Honours list were: Knight Bachelor: Alderman Martin Wallace, J.P., former president of the Belfast branch.
Companion of the...
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WE record, with great regret, the death on 20th September, at the age of eighty-one, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., late chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Holmes was a Norfolk man, hailing from Morning- thorpe Manor House, Long...
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WE wish to bring to the notice of sub- scribers to the Institution a method by which those who already give generous subscriptions can still further increase their support without any additional cost to...
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Engine room fire THE TRAWLER St Patrick reported to the Coastguard Channel Navigation Service on channel 10 VHP at 1805 on Wednesday December 7, 1977, that she was hove to with smoke coming from the engine room five miles south east of Dover...
THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the Welsh District and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in touch...
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Some brave RNLI volunteers face 10m waves and force 9 gales; others find themselves at the mercy of 30 excitable 5-year-olds. So how do we help save lives from the relative safety of the...
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LEGACIES PAID TO THE ROYAL NATIONAL' LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION DURING THE TEN YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1892.
[Legacieg under £250 are omitted after having oeeu published twice in tfce Annual Eeporfa.} Amount...
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FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
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Keith Downey, nephew of one of the victims of the Rye pulling and sailing lifeboat Mary Stanford disaster in 1928, is here shown demonstrating the use of Professor Pask's aid to resuscitation in the Rye Harbour ILB.. - View image in PDF
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THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the Welsh District and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in touch... - View image in PDF
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