For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Incorporated by Royal Charter Founded 1824. SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS, PATRONESS HER HOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
VICE-PATRON HIS ROYAL...
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BooKs Sea stories – new writing from the National Maritime Museum Various writers This intriguing collection encompasses tales of the remote and wild coastal landscapes of Orkney and the west of Ireland, Mediterranean mysteries, an ill-fated...
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1st February to 30th April, 1935.
Greater London.
ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing on 29th April, the Mayoress of Acton, president, in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing...
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FOR an outstanding service following a call to a ten-year-old boy who was seriously ill Coxswain Philip Byrne of Arranmore has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry.
At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of 29th November,...
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There’s a new reason to be a member of Storm Force, the RNLI club for children. Crew Room is a new RNLI website packed with extra goodies exclusively for Storm Force members.
Members get a password to unlock new RNLI games...
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ON the 8th April this year the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION decided to build and station a Steam Life-boat at Padstow, and it is of considerable inte- rest to pass in review the reasons which led the governing body to adopt such a...
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The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been awarded to seven men who put out in the Portrush life-boat to search for survivors from a Norwegian frigate on ist November, 1965.
At 9.16 that morning Mr. W. R....
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Every second counts as three saved from submerged dory The crew of the Whitstable lifeboat had just 17 minutes to save three lives. Weather conditions were so bad, they exceeded the operating limits of the lifeboat, but the crew knew that...
When Dr Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife paid an informal visit to Whitstable ILB station on July 27, they went out in the Atlantic 21 and His Grace took the wheel.
Since the founding of the Institution... - View image in PDF
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The RNLI Flood Rescue Team Land Rover is now available as a Corgi model, along with its very own trailer and lifeboat.
With a recent run of wet Summers, specially trained RNLI volunteers have rescued hundreds of people...
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