(right) Lt Cdr Brian Miles inserts the final piece in the jigsaw - a symbolic completion of the seven-year plan to have fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF
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Pupils from Hamworthy Middle School interviewed about the RNLI. Hamworthy pupils knew significantly more about the everyday activities of the lifeboat service than the school which was not close to HQ.. - View image in PDF
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EX-TORPEDO-BOAT DRIFTING Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.40 in the afternoon of the 7th of September, 1947, information was received by wireless, telegraph and telephone that a motor vessel had been seen drifting by the steamer Eddystone, when off...
Yesterday: Norman Clark launches from her carriage on a bleak day with snow on the ground and dusting 'The Law', rising majestically above the town. Lifeboat crew and shore helpers would have come mostly from fishing... - View image in PDF
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THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every shipwrecked person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Seafield, Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 2nd December, 1933, a curragh, which was returning from the fishing grounds,...
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Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
Mr David F. Aubrey, honorary secretary of the Port Talbot ILB station, writes: "The Mayor on December 8, 1972, invited the crew for tea in his parlour, and during the afternoon lie agreed to sign up for Shoreline and gave the project... - View image in PDF
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RETURN OF THE LIZARD LIFE-BOAT FROM SERVICE.. - View image in PDF
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Doris Rijkers Coxswain of the Holder Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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