Vital illumination JUST AFTER 1900 on the evening of Wednesday February 12, 1986, Douglas, Isle of Man, lifeboat station's deputy launching authority was telephoned by Ramsey coastguard. An accident had happened close to Douglas...
Visitors to the Boat Show clamber aboard the Severn class lifeboat for closer inspection. - View image in PDF
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RNLI volunteers, staff and supporters collected for London Lifeboat Week in 2003. - View image in PDF
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Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...
WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...
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THE unfortunate accident which occurred to the Calais mail-packet Prince Frederick William, in February last, will be fresh in the memory of many of our readers, when the upsetting of one of the Calais life-boats, which had proceeded to the...
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A lifebelt cheque for £200 was paid into Banbury and District branch's bank account, the money being the profit from a Round Table dinner at Brackley at which Raymond Baxter, a member of the RNLI's Public Relations Committee was... - View image in PDF
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Jubilee Fix it! Last year was an important year for the Scarborough Ladies' lifeboat guild as they celebrated their Diamond Jubilee. The spring bank holiday was packed with fund raising activities including a festival of flowers held at... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 14TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
Two men had been reported in difficulties on some rocks, but no one was found there and probably seals had been mistaken for men. - Rewards, £3 2s. 6d..
(Rightl ... a far cry from that day in October last year when the couple and their cousin were snatched to safety in Storm Force winds.. - View image in PDF
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