POOLE.—On the 23rd February two vessels, the barquentine Albert T. Young and the Hildred, both belonging to Faversham, and laden with coal, stranded on the back of the Hook Sands, in a fresh S.E. wind and a rough sea. The Honorary Secretary...
The first international lifeboat conference was held in London in 1924, the centenary year of the RNLI; the first international lifeboat exhibition is being held at Plymouth this summer to celebrate our 150th...
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GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Scarborough -- North Division The boathouse for Scarborough's Mersey and D class is right on the town's seafront, tucked into the corner of the beach at South Bay...
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, THE LifE-BOAT JOURNAL.] Foundering of the Australian Screw Steamer, " London," in the Bay of Biscay, on the 11th of January. 1866.
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. — The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon on the 12th February, 1938, as the weather had got very bad, and the local motor fishing boats Mary Joy, Hyperion, Margaret and Floreat were at sea. A strong...
Short but effective service by D class saves fiveThe RNLFs Chief of Operations has written to the crew of Burry Port's D class inflatable lifeboatcommending the quick, positive thinking by the helmsman, good seamanship and boat handling...
THURSDAY, 11th June, 1891.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
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SIR,—When I was in St. Paul's Cathe- dral a few months since, I was moved afresh at the sight of the magnificent monuments to our great naval and mili- tary heroes, particularly those of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington; and, as I...
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Dr Who's indispensible mechanical partner has turned his attention towards the RNLI.
Alan Dixon, proprietor of Huddersfield's model centre, has made a full working replica of K9 and will be sending him out to... - View image in PDF
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