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READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...
Category: Articles
Newquay - a Vast Improvement
Newquay - a vast improvement on the concrete garage…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service In 1930
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 91 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 100 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1931 62,533 The Life-boat Service in 1930.
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Category: Articles
Lifesaving on the edge
When lifeguards found a seriously injured man in the water, it would take three RNLI teams to bring him to safety over an island’s rocky ledges
Hoylake volunteer Marcus Swaine was already...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 15th June, 1923.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Elected His Grace the DUKE OF ATHOLL, K.T., a Vice-President of the Institution.
Decided that the House of the...
Category: Committee
Wells Lifeboat Ernest Tom Neathercoat Photographed from Raf Helicopter Rescue 125 Soon After 1000 on November 21 As She Rides Out the Storm and High Sea
Wells Lifeboat Ernest Tom Neathercoat Photographed From Raf Helicopter Rescue 125 Soon After 1000 On November 21 As She Rides Out The Storm and High Sea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services (from page 281)
Lifeboat Services (from page 281) The divers were landed at Horton at 1441 and the ILB was rehoused and ready for service by 1516.
For this service the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Helmsman...
Category: Services
The Fishery Patrol Vessel Switha
Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...
Where Help Is Wanted
THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in...
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TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
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