THERE he stands, somewhat apart from the rest, his eyes straining in the haze to watch her disappearing form. The Life-boat has been launched, and— amazing, incredible, as it yet seems to his mind—launched without him 1 For half a century he...
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Oh do pay attention 007 RNLI London Events Office held a James Bond fundraising party on the River Thames aboard HMS Belfast on 25 September.
Guests disguised themselves as their favourite Bond characters - ranging from 007...
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Margate, Kent.—The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 10th January, in answer to a message from North Foreland wireless station, received through the coastguard, that a trawler about...
SEA Check scheme goes coast-wide Why wait until you get into trouble before finding out how well equipped your boat is? That's the reasoning behind the RNLI's SEA Check scheme, which aims to give every boat owner the chance to have a...
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Conference 155) plank and frame wooden construction. Burdensome sail and displacement-type power yachts are proper candidates.
The only overlap of applicability occurs in the case of fibreglass and aluminium. But even here...
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EARL HOWE, the former chairman of the Committee of Management, has been appointed honorary chairman for life of the Institution. This appoint- ment brings to an end an active period of work on behalf of the life-boat service extending over...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 4.45 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, a small vessel was seen to be in a dangerous position S. by E. of the Splaugh Rock.
A moderate but increasing N.E. gale was blowing, with heavy rain and a...
Hurricane-force winds as two lifeboats search for missing diversThe rescue of two skin divers in appalling weather conditions has won Acting Coxswain James Dougal a Silver Medal for Gallantry. Weather and sea conditions during the service...
The pull of the lifeboat Hannah Chittock tells how she came to join the RnLi ‘family’ When my husband Jon was a child, he and his friends would peer through the window of the old RnLi station in Lymington for a glimpse of the lifeboat and,...
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This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF
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