About half-past three o'clock on the morning of the 25th Janu- ary, while the wind was blowing strongly from the east, and during a heavy snow- storm, the brig Sarah, of Sunderland, bound from that port to Southampton with coal, and...
Below View of the visitors centre front entrance This photograph was taken by RNLt shoreworks manager. Howard Ritchings. who obviously enjoyed better weather. - View image in PDF
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For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(.Incorporated try Royal Charter.') FOUNDED IN 1824.— SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRTBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
Her Most Gracious Majesty...
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Jan. 17,1856.—The brig Bonnie Marie, of Nantes, was observed in the night to hare a signal of distress flying. The Portmadoc life-boat, which belongs to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, manned by 12 men, put off to the vessel's...
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The RNLI has a commitment to the UK and Irish governments to provide a lifeboat service for both countries - that means covering a massive 8,850 miles of coastline up to 50 miles out to sea. In order to provide this search and rescue cover,...
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THE Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited awarded a case of rum to the life-boat crew who carried out the longest continuous service during the winter months of 1953-54. The award was given to the Holyhead crew for the...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 10.19 a-ni.
on nth November, 1966, news was given that the barge Isle of Gigha had capsized three miles south of Chuirn Island. Two men were missing. There was a strong southerly wind with a rough...
Fund for the Life-boat House on the {lumber.
As all readers of The Lifeboat know, the city of Bradford has been conspicuously generous in its support of the Life-boat Service, and nowhere, on the coast or inland, has the...
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Brighton's Atlantic 21 lifeboat on exercise in heavy seas. The photograph was taken by Alan Young, helmsman of the lifeboat for the service described below.. - View image in PDF
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