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Some Special Gifts
£22,000 from an Anonymous Donor.
A BANKNOTE for £1,000 sent in a regis- tered envelope with the message " One thousand pounds enclosed for the National Life-boat Institution," and then, underneath, "...
Category: Donations
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—Continued
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A fearful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss...
Category: Services
The Yoko Was Formerly the New Brighton, Cheshire, Reserve Life-Boat ON812
The Yoko was formerly the New Brighton, Cheshire, reserve life-boat ON812 Edmund and Mary Robinson built in 1938. She was a 41-foot Watson and in those days cost the R.N.L.I. £6,000 to build.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI and me: Alexander McCall Smith
When bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith isn’t penning adventures set in Scotland and Botswana, he plots his own dramatic course on the water …
You published five books in 2015 alone – how do you manage to be so...
Category: Articles
Ned' the Barge Horse and Mr E Wrangles Who Was Sponsored By 140 People for £137 Were Two of the Participants In the Hertford Walk In Aid of the RNLI Along The
'Ned', the barge horse, and Mr. E. Wrangles, who was sponsored by 140 people for £137, were two of the participants in the Hertford walk in aid of the R.N.L.I, along the towpath of the River Lee from Hertford to Dobbs Weir last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Barque
On the morning of the 30th March was reported that a barque was ashore on Cymeran Beach, with all hands in the fore rigging, the vessel having sunk, and her mainmast having been carried away during a heavy S.S.W.
gale. The...
The Sea Angling Cruiser Queen of Aran
Galway Bay, Galway - At 5.20 p.m.
on 22nd August, 1969, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre reported that the sea angling cruiser Queen of Aran, fishing between Great Man's bay and Kilronan, needed assistance. At...
The R.A.S.C. Petrol Barge M.O.B.4.
MARCH 18TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 8.35 at night the coastguard telephoned that Niton Radio had picked up a message from a steamer that a vessel off Egypt Point was asking for help. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was launched at nine...
The Danish Motor Vessel Loa Ronn
MAY 13TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
About noon a vessel was seen five miles out showing a “Not under control” signal. She anchored, and was kept under observation, but later she went on her way. At 6.30 she was seen to be...