This was the last exercise launch of the pulling and sailing life-boat Mary Andrew, before the station was temporarily closed on 17th January, 1939, when the Amble station was reopened, as an experiment, with a motor life-boat. Hauxley will... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
The S.S. Alcoa Master, of New York, had grounded on Rat Island, Lundy, but refloated without help as the tide rose.- Rewards, £17 18s. 6d..
Stornoway: for the service to Junella on September 29, 1980, Coxswain/Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald was awarded the silver medal for gallantry. With him are his crew, who were accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum, (I. to r... - View image in PDF
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Every overseas mail since the war began has brought gifts to the Institution from somewhere in the Empire, unsolicited gifts from people on whom the war must be making the same heavy demands as it is making upon us all. Those gifts have come...
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Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground in a dangerous position near North Goodwin buoy.
At 10.36 the life-boat Michael and Lily...
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Greater London.
CHELSEA.—First Annual Meeting on 4th November at the Royal Chelsea Hospital, by permission of the Governor and Lady Lyttelton. Speakers : Major- General the...
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Heather Deane of the RNLI Poole Office signs on Howard Lang: 'The Onedin Line's' Captain Baines.. - View image in PDF
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The annual meeting of the Institution was held in London on April 30th., and the principal speaker was Sir Arthur Salter, K.C.B., M,P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping. For the first time since J914, when the custom was...
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THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
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A record number of visitors to this year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, visited the R.N.L.I. stand between 4th-14th January, 1967. Principal exhibits were the new 44-foot steel life-boat John F. Kennedy, open for... - View image in PDF
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