AT 9.30 on the night of the 19th of October. 1955, the son of Coxswain George Flett of the Aberdeen no. 1 life-boat heard a vessel in the bay blowing her siren continuously. He telephoned this information to the honorary secretary of the...
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Launches 37. Lives rescued 14.
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...
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EDINBURGH'S PERMANENT LIFEBOAT SHOP, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN 'IN BUSINESS' FOR TEN YEARS by Joyce Dunford MANY ARE THE WAYS of raising money for the RNLI, but one of the most unusual is the Edinburgh shop, rightly named 'The Lucky...
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Willy de Roos' yacht Williwawa Faraday Base, Antarctica in 1983. During her passage, she was tested to the limit, breaking through solid ice up to 18 inches thick, passing a Japanese boat that had been frozen in the previous season.... - View image in PDF
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The Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 27th of October, 1948, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the...
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Two saved from yacht in onshore severe galeAservice by Shoreham's Tyne class lifeboat in June 1999 has earned her coxswain Peter Huxtable the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum.
The service was carried out in...
(6)—The Walton-on-Naze life-boat, the 'Edian Courtauld', at her moorings off Walton pier early one winter's morning.. - View image in PDF
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Sir CHARLES WILSON, LL.D., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the dis- tinguished services which he has rendered for very many years past, first as Honorary Secretary of the Leeds Life-boat...
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The Lifeboat Atlantic 75 B-713 OEM Stone I Aisisting Lifeboat Trent class ON-1211 Geoige and Ivy Swanson The Crew gfgnza Medal Helmsman David Parry for his 'outstanding courage.
seamanship and...
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