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WELCOMING THE RNLI’S NEW VICE-CHAIR
Stuart Popham has been appointed as the RNLI’s new Vice-Chair. ‘I’m honoured to be given such a fantastic opportunity – to be Vice-Chair for such an amazing charity and important lifesaving service,’ says Stuart, who has been on the RNLI...
Category: Articles
San Calisto and the Minesweeper Hugh Walpole
DEC. 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT. The motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 11.50 A.M., after a terrific explosion had been seen at sea.A fresh, westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. About two miles...
The Seine Net Fishing Vessel Quest
JUNE. 10TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 11.30 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that they had been watching a vessel since 6 P.M.
She was under sail, but making little headway, and appeared to be flying a...
The Life-Boat Service In 1932
THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 111 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 66 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1933 - 63,209 The Life-boat Service in 1932.
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The Life-Boat and Its Work
Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...
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The Ex-Naval Cutter Overdraft II (1)
Anchor dragged A RADIO MESSAGE from the charter boat Aqua-Manda, that the ex-naval cutter Overdraft II had run out of fuel and dragged her anchor and was drifting with two people on board, was reported to the honorary secretary of Clactonon-...
The Duke of Kent Has Accepted the Institution's Invitation to Become Its Next President. This Was Announced Formally at the Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the I
The Duke of Kent has accepted the Institution's invitation to become its next President. This was announced formally at the annual general meeting of the Governors of the Institution on 25th March (see page 618). The Duke of Kent thus... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boatmen In the Victory March
Twenty-four life-boatmen, from Walton-on-tlae-Naze, Clacton, Margate, Ramsgate, Walmer and Hastings, marched with the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy in the Victory March on June 8th. The life-boats of these six stations rescued 839 lives...
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The Lifeboat Service—Past and Present
Years Ago The following is an extract from the speech by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (Chairman of the RNLI, 1923-56) at the 1935 Annual General Meeting and reported in THE LIFEBOAT of June 1935.
and then had to go on to New...
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The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Strathclyde
Newhaven, Sussex - At 7.47 p.m. on 6th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was in difficulties about seven miles south east of the station.
At 7.55 the life-boat Kathleen Marywas...