OUR Life-boat Saturday friends have not been idle since we issued our last notice of the Fund. Fresh committees have been formed and active measures taken in all directions to secure success and development in the near future, although the...
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The crew of Margate lifeboat are presented to Princess Margaret by Alan Wear (r.), station honorary secretary, before the service of dedication: (I. to r.) Crew Member Kenneth Sandwell, Motor Mechanic Alfred Lacey, Second Coxswain David... - View image in PDF
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Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.
THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...
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Winning ticket: Jan Harvey and Lord Stanley proclaim a winner together in the 33rd RNLI national lottery. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Bournemouth Evening Echo.. - View image in PDF
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JAN. 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The steam trawler Imbrin, of La Rochelle, had stranded on the Haisborough Sands, but got off without help.-Rewards, £29 6s. 6d..
JAN. 22ND. - ABERDEEN. A small boat had been reported capsized at the mouth of the River Don, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..
DECEMBER 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 5.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported distress signals east-south-east of Walton. The night was very dark, with rain. A strong east-south-east wind was blowing and the sea was very rough...
THURSDAY, 6th January, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
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Summer winners Thank you to all of you who supported the RNLI summer 2005 Lifeboat Lottery, which raised over £470,000.
The first prize, an 18-day Mediterranean cruise, was won by Mr Head from Middlesex....
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THE fishermen round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland play, as may naturally be supposed, the most important part in manning the fleet of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and it is of course to their co-operation that the...
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