THE Institution is fortunate in often having the help of its Coxswains and Crews, not only in manning the Life- boats, but in raising funds, sometimes by their personal efforts and sometimes in the form of gifts out of salvage money which...
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WELLS, NORFOLK.—A fishing-smack being observed with signals of distress flying, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 23rd March, the crew of the Life-boat Baltic were summoned, and at 5 P.M....
OWNER MADE DONATION Sheringham, Norfolk. The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was returning to her station from a publicity launch to Blakeney on Sunday the i5th August, 1965, when at 12.10 the small sailing boat Tablet was seen...
The Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, attended a life-boat fete in the Botanical Gardens, Birmingham on September i8th. and made a short speech thanking Birmingham for its help. That help in 1943 was over £10,000..
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JUNE 18TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 11.3 P.M. the harbour master reported through the coastguard that a fishing vessel was in distress two and a half miles south-west of Maryport, and at 11.32 P.M. the motor life-boat...
AUGUST 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.37 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Kinnaird Head that a small motor boat was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Inzie Head, and that another boat was standing by and...
Beside him it the Hon. George Colville, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management.. - View image in PDF
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The New 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat In The Thames at London. - View image in PDF
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Emergency steering: the tiller can be seen on the rudder post.. - View image in PDF
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Above - Lifeboat Saturday in Glasgow: launching the lifeboat on the Clyde. - View image in PDF
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