Veteran of the Rohilla rescue, Henry Vernon, renamed, Rohilla, and photographed in 1935 when she was privately owned.. - View image in PDF
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Dover lifeboat, the 50ft Thames class Rotary Service, leaving harbour on Wednesday September 10, 1980, in a south-westerly gale to go to the help of an approaching West German yacht, Aquis Guana. The yacht, with a crew of nine, was on... - View image in PDF
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A stitch in time...
could save a lifeboat from launching The RNLI has started an initiative to slow the seemingly inexorable increase in lifeboat launches - by working to prevent incidents occurring in the first...
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Mr. J. E. Jones (left), president of the Neptune Swimming Club, Hackney, London, handing a cheque for over £170 to Mr. George Powell,of the R.N.LI.'s Wembley office, the proceeds of which were raised through a sponsored swim... - View image in PDF
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Ad- miralty dredger St. Giles was bound for Scarborough with a seriously injured man on board...
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning news was received by wireless from the S.S. Irish Willow that she had on board forty-seven survivors from the S.S. Empire Breeze, which had been torpedoed in mid-Atlantic on...
The P. & O. liner Oceana, which left London on the 15th March, with a large number of passengers, for Bombay, collided when off Beachy Head in the early morning of the 16th March with the German barque Pisagua.
The...
On the morning of the 2nd May a pilot reported to the coxswain that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a signal flag, and a life-boatman went to Westgate to find out the nature of the signal. He telephoned that it was a distress signal,...
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Deputy Secretary.
MAJOR A. D. BURNETT BROWN, M.C., has been appointed Deputy-Secretary to succeed Colonel Satterthwaite. He was educated at Haileybury and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he held a scholarship and...
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