At ii p.m. on ist August, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretarythat a critically ill patient needed urgent hospital attention on the mainland.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 11.59 and...
Selsey, Sussex. During the morning of 23rd July, 1965, the wind increased and anxiety was felt for the safety of four small fishing boats which were about four miles offshore. At 10.30 a.m. the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...
Gour don, Kincar dineshir e - At 11.10 a.m. on 22nd April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the fishing fleet was having difficulties at the harbour entrance. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at 11.22...
an act of common humanity at what would seem a trifling cost ? The reasons operating on the mind of the man who thus " passes by on the other side " are these: public journals accounts given by sailors j l - That the loss of...
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THE award of the prize of £600 and a gold medal made by her Majesty's Commis- sioners of the INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION for the " best full-sized Life-Boat, fully equipped,...
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IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...
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ACKERGILL, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — A telegram having been received on the 2nd Jan., 1903, from Keiss Village, that a vessel had run aground on the sands, the Life-boat Jonathan Marshall, Sheffield, was launched shortly after 11 A.M., and...
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The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on 18 May 2000, once again took place at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The morning AGM allowed Chairman David Acland, who retires at the end of July, to...
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Charting progress I recently finished reading the Spring 1994 issue of THE LIFEBOAT and am, as always, utterly amazed at the achievements of the Institution over the years.
The accounts of the lifeboat services in...
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