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Around the Coast
Barrow branch has set itself the target of raising £26,000, the estimated cost of reengining and refitting its lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson, Herbert Leigh. The halfway mark, £13,000, was passed last...
Category: Articles
Maritime Exhibition:
Maritime exhibition: the loan exhibition, Rule Britannia, at Sotheby's ran for the whole of January, was visited by thousands of people and raised over £10,000 for the RNLI.
It included items from over 150... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Exhausting Cliff Service THE Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was...
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, 4th March, 1852. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letter from the Local Committee at...
Category: Committee
The Royal Bank of Scotland
If it stays in your wallet, it can't help our volunteer crews.
Running a lifeboat service 365 days of the and training its over 4,000 crew members is expensive exercise.
But this is where you and your...
Category: Advertisement
A Vessel (21)
JUNE 13TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. A small vessel was on fire, but she had burnt to the water's edge. As she might continue to burn in the darkness, or become a danger to navigation, she was sunk by the life-boat.- Rewards, £18 10s..<...
To Rescue Drowning Persons
WE are gratified in being able to make public the following instructions for the guidance of those who being themselves able to swim, may have opportunity to go to the aid of their drowning fellow creatures.
The writer of...
Category: Correspondence
Heart and home
Behind the scenes, a lifeboat station mechanic must be both meticulous and creative to keep the service running – and his fellows safe
Mark Blatcher is poring over wiring diagrams. He’s trying...
Category: Articles
The Angling Boat Lady Jane
Three saved during Southland's worst weather in a decade and a half \ Southend lifeboat Helmsman John Foster has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery with Crew Members Michael Whistler and Ian Rees receiving the Thanks on...
H.M. Trawler Avanturine
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWHAVEN NOVEMBER 23RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 8.40 in the evening a message came from the naval officerin- charge at Newhaven, through the coastguard, asking that the life-boat should stand by. The crew were...