During the morn- ing of the 13th June, the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched in answer to guns from the East Goodwin Light-vessel, and on reaching her found the crew of the schooner Cicerone, five in number, taking refuge...
Lord Mayor visits Exmouth In 1970 the 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat City of Birmingham was named at Exmouth. Civic links forged then were renewed on April 11 when, at the invitation of Charles Tate, chairman of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton...
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
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50 years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 1, September 1940 SUSPENSION OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal The Lifeboat" stopped publication after...
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Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fond.........40 10 - Dnnnett Widows and Orphans Fond.........115 - 1 Reardon Samaritan...
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Two saved in harbour drama Faced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
On the morning of the 11th November the look-outs at this station discovered signals of distress flying from a barque anchored in dangerous proximity to the well-known Tuns Bank at the entrance of Derry Loch. Some time was lost owing to the...
DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid ser- vices, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institu- tion, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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