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News ‘A treasure trove!’ This is just one glowing comment from a visitor to the RNLI’s new Henry Blogg museum in Cromer – and now ‘official’ accolades have followed.
The building's contemporary design follows the curve...
Category: Articles
Diesel Engines In Life-Boats
THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...
Category: Articles
George and Margaret, Hope-on, John and Margaret, and Our Boys
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — Early on the morning of the 7th April the coastguard reported that five local fishing cobles were out, and that it would be very dangerous for them to make harbour. The sea was very rough, and a very strong,...
Clifford James
THERMAL WARMTH COMBAT COLD, DAMP WINTER WEATHER! BRING THERMAL COMFORT TO YOUR FEET.
ALASKA DE-LUXE ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTESTHESEARETHE p»| I r ATUCD ORIGINALAUD KtAL LcAlnlK WINTER BOOTS WERE CLEARING AT 10.99 • m FREE i...
Category: Advertisement
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from...
Category: Services
COLD REALITY
Lifeboat crews will always be ready to rescue when the call for help comes in. But with commercial fishing one of the most dangerous peacetime occupations, how can the RNLI help our fishermen to improve their chances before help arrives?<...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KIXG EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
Feature: the House That Vic Built
Lifeboat stations around the coast are subject to immense wear and tear from the launch and recovery of lifeboats and exposure to the elements. If lifeboats are to remain operational their boathouses and slipways must, however, be kept in a...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services December 1980 January and February 1981
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: December 19 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: January 8 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 42ft Beach: February 4 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in Rather: December 2 Arranmore, Co. Donegal 52ft Burnett: December 19, January 1,...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th December, 1861. THOMAS CHAPHAN, Esq., F.B.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee