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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OWING to the space taken by the accounts of the winter gales and the report of the Prince of Wales's visit to Edinburgh and Glasgow, it has been.
necessary to hold over a number of articles and reports which otherwise...
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Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Difficult conditions as two casualties are taken from the shore The rescue of two people cut off by the tide in difficult and dangerous conditions has led to Sean Baxter, the helmsman of Staithes and Runswick's Atlantic 21 lifeboat,...
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ITS WORK.
HPHE Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in paying...
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Late in 1995, seven members of Dunbar lifeboat crew and their Coxswain, Noel Wright, attended the pre-commissioning training for their new Trent class lifeboat at RNLI headquarters in Poole. The final part of the course was their passage...
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FEBRUARY 12TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 3.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was in difficulties near Hayle Bar. The motor life-boat Caroline Oaks Aver and William Maine was launched fifteen minutes later. She...
Contents Henry Blogg of Cromer, by Patrick Howarth 77 Lifeboat Services 78 yVLrl V Offshore Lifeboat Services, June, July and August 1975 82 454 Medical Arrangements in the RNLI: Part I History, by Geoffrey Hale, MBE MB B.CH ... 83 Naming...
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OCTOBER MEETING FOLKESTONE, KENT. About mid-day on the 26th August, 1940, an aeroplane was seen down in the sea a mile from Copt Point,and three men put out in a rowing boat and succeeded in rescuing one German airman, who was transferred to...
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