Fund raisers from the Midlands manned the RNLI stand at the National Exhibition Centre; 123 Shoreline and 36 Storm Force members were enrolled and takings amounted to an impressive £8,521. The main RNLI exhibit was the new St Agnes D... - View image in PDF
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MARCH 26TH. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
At 2.45 in the morning the coastguard reported that the American steamer George Vickers, of Baltimore, was asking for a boat to land two of her crew, who were seriously ill. As no...
ALTHOUGH, in the course of its 127 years of work the Institution has saved, or helped to save, thousands of vessels from destruction, it makes no claims for salvage. Its sole purpose is the rescue of life. When, however, life- boats are able...
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IN 1947 the Lord Mayor of Sydney started what came to be known as the Australian Express Parcel Scheme for sending food parcels to Great Britain.
Two years later, on November 29th, 1949, the two-millionth parcel was...
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About 1-30 A.M., on the 19th April, the weather being thick and foggy, signals of distress were observed from a vessel on the rocks off this place.
The Whitby life-boat Lucy was soon launched through a heavy surf, and suc-...
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Weymouth Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July on the Nothe Parade, in the presence of many hundreds of people. The Motor Life-boat from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was also present.
This is...
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Over mud WHILE PAYING a routine visit to Spurn Coastguard lookout on Saturday December 6, 1980, Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station was told, at 1912, that Hull Radio had reported two red flares sighted in the Foul...
The reserve life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen, which went up the Thames to Oxford, opposite County Hall (see page 595). - View image in PDF
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(Above) The first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go to station, Ann Ritchie, is demonstrated to the principal guests after her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
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Chairman at the Annual Meeting held at the Mansion House, April, 1917, and President of Life-boat Day, 1917. - View image in PDF
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