Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.30 a.m.
on 19th October, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Dowsing lightvessel required to be taken ashore for medical treatment. As there was no urgency it was decided to...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CAMPBELTOWN JANUARY 1 9TH. - CAMPBLE- TOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWN-SHIRE. At seven minutes to eight in the morning a message came from the coastguard at Southend that a ship was ashore in front of the...
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeremiah O'Connell, of Valentia, Co. Kerry,He has been coxswain since 1946..
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THERE are few in the history of the Institution who have a longer record of service than Mr. John W. Foster, of Whitby, who retired at the end of last September. He had then been secretary of the Whitby life-boat station for 44 years. He was...
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'Well, it was like this. I went to Ted and Mary's Life-boat Tavern at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and hadn't been in the bar a minute before I saw with my own eyes one of the R.N.L.I.'s super new 48-foot 6-inch boats ahead of me. .... - View image in PDF
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Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them . 444.
Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . . £1,570 18 11
Number...
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
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Aberdovey: Lieut-Commander George Cooper, divisional inspector of lifeboats, western division, introduces the crew to the president. Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship I is stationed at Aberdovey; she is one of the ILBs for which the money was... - View image in PDF
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MOTOR CRUISER TOWED AFTER CREW LAND Eastbourne, Sussex. At 6.15 on the evening of the 6th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was ashore on the rocks at Birling Gap. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache...
No article on the Zetland and the RNLI at Redcar would be complete without mention of Vera Robinson MBE. Vera joined the Redcar ladies lifeboat guild as a committee member in 1930 and has held every position in the fl guild during the last... - View image in PDF
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