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What can happen in 10 minutes? For coastal lifeboat stations, that can be the time needed for dedicated volunteers to drop whatever they’re doing, form a crew and launch. For those at Tower Lifeboat Station, it’s a different...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Fourth lottery THE FOURTH NATIONAL LOTTERY of the RNLI was drawn by Ed (Stewpot) Stewart on Wednesday January 31 at RNLI headquarters, Poole. Supervising the draw were Major-General Ralph H. Farrant, chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Donations
'The scariest situation I've ever been in'
As the evening approached at Aberavon Beach on the south Wales coast, the RNLI lifeguard team were packing up their kit – but their work was not over for the day …
Sun and sand had attracted...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th December. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.j F.R.S., V.P.i in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes at the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees of the ROYAL...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Museum at Eastbourne
ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.
The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...
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Dentist Neil Thomas (Left Foreground) With the Crew and Helpers of the New Brighton Lifeboat After the Service
Dentist Neil Thomas (left foreground) with the crew and helpers of the New Brighton lifeboat after the service. - View image in PDF
(Photo Bob Bird). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
150th Anniversary Reception Given on March 4 In the State Apartments Dublin Castle Ireland By the Minister of Transport and Power Mr Peter Berry Td: (Left to Right)
150th Anniversary Reception given on March 4 in the State Apartments, Dublin Castle, Ireland, by the Minister of Transport and Power, Mr Peter Berry, TD: (left to right) Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, Mr and Mrs Peter Berry, Commander F. R.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Honorary Secretary Stanley Power {Right) Introduces the Dunmore East Crew to Mr Peter Barry Minister for Transport and Power In the Republic of Ireland and Mrs Barry
Honorary Secretary Stanley Power {right) introduces the Dunmore East crew to Mr Peter Barry, Minister for Transport and Power in the Republic of Ireland, and Mrs Barry, who named the lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Enterprize II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.5 on the morning of the llth of October, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing coble Enterprize II was at sea in bad weather. Conditions at the outer harbour bar were dangerous, and the No. 1...
Two Sisters
JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.5 P.M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...