Surfers Jamie Kent And Tom Roberson. - View image in PDF
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The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...
Category: Awards
Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent, presenting Alderney Coxswain Stephen Shaw with the first of his two bronze medals.. - View image in PDF
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Calshot: (I. to r.) Crew Members John Street, Christopher Smith and Peter King with the inflatable boarding boat in which they rescued three men from Ashlett Creek on the night of January 29. Winds were gale force 8 gusting to severe gale... - View image in PDF
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The narrow stretch of water which separates England from France has long been a hub of marine activity, and lifeboat stations have been established there for nearly 200 years. Mike Floyd looks at the Dover Straits today and the way in which...
Category: Articles
Honorary Life- Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution:...
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FOR SWIMMERS
Swell
by Jenny Landreth
For centuries, women in the water fell into three categories: mermaids luring sailors to their doom, witches being dunked, and those of questionable moral fibre. This fun...
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EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...
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Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore galeThe coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives of eight people from a dismasted yacht...
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G., has been pleased to assume the office of President of the Institution. He is the fifth member of the Royal Family to become President. King Edward VII.
King George V, King Edward VIIIJ and...
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