AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.
E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.
This stated that the...
Category: Services
Last bowman Ronald Chapman has been promoted to Second Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat.
This means that the historic position of bowman will no longer exist within the RNLI as he was the last lifeboatman to hold the post.<...
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FROM PULLING 'ORIGINAL' TO HIGH SPEED 'FAST AFLOAT' WAVENEYPLYMOUTH, host city for the first International Lifeboat Exhibition, 'Lifeboat International', from July 19 to August 17, was one of the 31 stations to have a...
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Fortitude off Falmouth Without power, Merchant Vessel Calina found herself at the mercy of a violent storm and drifting dangerously close to shore. With the nearest Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) several hours away, RNLI crew were...
IN the year 1864, after making exhaustive inquiries extending over some years, the Committee of Management • of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued to all its Lifeboat stations the regulations for the restoration of the...
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THERE has been a Life-boat at Cresswell, on the Northumbrian coast, for the last fifty years. What manner of place it is was described by the then Hon. Secre- tary in an article which appeared in! The Lifeboat in February,...
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When Titanic survivor Mary Roberts climbed aboard a hospital steamship in October 1914, she hoped for a relatively straightforward passage to France. But what happened next put over 200 lives in danger – and made history...
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
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BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.—The crew of the Life-boat placed here by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION not being satisfied with their boat, and having expressed a strong desire that they might be furnished with another one, the Institution has...
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ON 27th July, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, E.G., President of the Institu- tion, attended the Inaugural Ceremony of the Motor Life-boat at Torbay, and named the boat George Shee, after the late Secretary of the Institution.
Category: Inaugurations