Mike Bartley (left) and his wife Shirley-Ann being presented with their cheque for £2,000 - the top prize in the RNLI's summer draw - by Gemma Craven (right).
The Institution's Head of Fund Raising Anthony... - View image in PDF
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FOR the second year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, | gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to about 160 children living in the neighbourhood of the Storeyard. It was...
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St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of Naples, bound from Liverpool to Hull with a cargo of linseed and cotton seed,...
The brig Eliza- beth and Cicely, of Guernsey, ran ashore off this place about one o'clock on the morn- ing of the 16th Jan., and soon began to break up, the crew of 8 men being forced to take refuge in the rigging. When the perilous...
Joseph Ibbitson (centre) aboard the Padstow lifeboat with three of the coastguards who rescued him, and coxswain Trevor England (right). - View image in PDF
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Engines of the New Gardner Type. - View image in PDF
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Stromness, Orkneys. At 2.20 p.m.
on 29th December, 1965, the honorary secretary expressed his concern about two local fishing vessels, the Victory and the Merlin, whose arrival from the fishing grounds was overdue. The life...
THE photograph of Coxswain Blogg, of Cromer, on the cover, was taken by Illustrated in 1940, and is reproduced by its very kind permission..
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ABOUT 10 P.M. on the 23rd December the Coast-guard reported a vessel in distress off Saltfleet, near Doona Nook, in Lincolnshire. The Life-boat crew were assembled and the Boat taken down to the beach, but, as nothing could be seen of the...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 132 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 35 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31st, 1937 65,096 Their Majesties the King and Queen :...
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