IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
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[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...
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ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...
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Fig. 2: After end jacked up so that holes can be drilled through deadwood for keel bolts, the longest bolt being 3ft 6in.. - View image in PDF
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Flamborough and Filey, Yorkshire - At 3.20 p.m. on 9th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a youth had fallen over the cliff about two miles north west of the life-boat station. The IRB stationed at Filey was...
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Thursday, the 19th day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Balfour of Burleigh, K.T., P.O., in the Chair,...
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Commodore The Right Hon. The Earl Howe (right), Chairman of the Committee of Management from 1956 to 1964: as at home in a lifeboat as at an international conference—or at the wheel of a high-speed car.. - View image in PDF
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Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Weymouth: as Amirante sinks, Weymouth's 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell moves in to pick up her crew. On the lifeboat foredeck are (!) Crew Member Robert Runyeard and fr) Assistant Coxswain Michael Reynolds. photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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