(below) The RNLI's President, HRH The Duke of Kent, accompanied by Chairman David Acland (right) visits the Sea Safety display at the Barbican. The announcement of the coast-wide launch of SEA Check was one of this year's main... - View image in PDF
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The sound of clicking keyboards and ringing phones at RNLI Headquarters is pierced with a long, shrill bleep. It’s a pager alert. Chris Speers, the RNLI’s E-Design Officer, jumps up, gives a nod that means ‘not sure when I’ll be back’, and...
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FOR THE YEAR 1898-99.
SHOWING ALSO THE PRESHNT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.
Of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION i-JW -•% SUM MART Dar-lfll, (flf yrOI- rndai tAt. 30* Kuir !SS3. thr fiuJni f ,if...
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Air Vice Marshal John Te!Ley Cb Cvo RNLI Deputy Chairman. - View image in PDF
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The Mumbles raft race in aid of the RNLI is in its 23rd year Photo: South Wales Evening Post. - View image in PDF
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Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. — 15th February, 1938. A report that the s.s.Helen, of Saltvik, Finland, had wirelessed that she was in difficulties had been received and the Lowestoft lifeboat went out. She...
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
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When HRH The Duke of Kent, President, of the RNLI, visited Lowestoft lifeboat station in May he met crew members, their wives and branch and guild representatives.
Lord Somerleyton, branch president (hidden), presents to... - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. During the evening a strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and a pilot launch and a port control launch, both of Cork, were swamped and sunk in Cork Harbour when on their way to put...