AT a luncheon of the Rotary Club at Deptford in July last an address was given by the District Organizing Secre- tary for Greater London. In the course of the address he referred to the fact that the engines used in Life-boats wereof the...
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There have been bonds between the police in Wolverhampton and the RNLI since 1863 when Captain Henry Segrave, the Chief Constable of Wolverhampton, was elected honorary secretary of the newly-formed Wolverhampton branch, and over the years...
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The S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool, bound from Fowey to Preston, with a crew of nine, got into difficulties when about twenty-one miles north of Pendeen on the evening of the 6th December. Her fires had been extinguished by heavy seas, and...
WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....
A happy 'lifeboat' crew! May lands Infants' class 6 (4% to five years) adopted the RNLI as their project for a term. They organised a raffle, a fair, a sponsored walk round the playground and even composed a song. £160 was... - View image in PDF
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 1.36 p.m.
on 4th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Caldy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown slipped her moorings at 1.44 in a...
In the early hours of the 17th of October, 1958, the Lerwick, Shetland Islands, life-boat rescued the only three survivors of the Soviet trawler Urbe. A full account of this service, for which Coxswain John Sales was awarded the silver medal...
At about 10 P.M. on the 13th November the coxswain saw that the Middle Gas Float had broken from its mooring and was drifting out of the Humber, be- coming a danger to navigation. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, and the...
Modern Motor Life-boats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
By ]. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A. (Blackie & Sons, Ltd. 5s. net.) THE author of this book is the head of the famous Clyde firm of yacht...
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On the 9th April the same life-boat again put off to the smack Shamrock, of Wexford, which was totally wrecked during a very strong easterly wind on the north end of the Dogger Bank. The life-boat was placed as near as possible, and the crew...