SHIPS have always been a favourite subject for stamps. Yet among this multipli- city of stamps concerned with the sea, comparatively little attention has been paid to that very necessary aspect of life at sea, namely, the life-boats which...
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AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...
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This Day raised the record sum of over £724.. - View image in PDF
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Sea Scouts Help On Nottingham Life-Boat Day. - View image in PDF
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H.R.H. The Duchess of York visited a number of depots on Lifeboat Day in Greater London, on May 19th.
She is seen with the Mayor and Mayoress at Paddinglon Town Hall. Behind the Mayoress is Mr. George... - View image in PDF
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Cullercoats: Miss Diana Phillips afloat in the C class inflatable lifeboat partly funded by her gift in memory of her parents, Mr and Mrs H. A. Phillips; she was shown the lifeboat at RNLI Cowes base before it was sent to Cullercoats, where,... - View image in PDF
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The RNLI’s Annual Presentation of Awards was held in London’s Barbican Centre on 22 May with guest of honour HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. She presented the RNLI’s Silver Medal for Gallantry to Torbay Coxswain Mark Criddle for his part in...
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PUBLIC attention has frequently been called to the invaluable use of a barometer for indicating a coming storm. It not unfrequently happens that a notice of a gale is given by a barometer two or three days before it actually takes place.<...
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Leesa Espley from Hunstanton is the fi rst woman in the RNLI to get a hovercraft licence. Photo: Simon Barber. - View image in PDF
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THE following account of the rescue of the crew and passengers of a shipwreck like that of the steam-ship Stanley, off Tynemouth, on the fearful night of the 24th November last, is taken from an admirable and most interesting little volume,...
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