AT 2.45 in the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1949, the Pilot House at Irvine, Ayrshire, telephoned to Troon, three and a half miles to the south, that a vessel was ashore on the north side of Irvine Bar. She was the s.s. Christina Dawn, of...
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A new era in the history of Poole's lifeboats began on 27 July 1990 when the Mayor of Poole, Councillor Mrs Anne Stribley, unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the new lifeboat house in a very visible position next to the lifting... - View image in PDF
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The 1th September, 1963, was the 25th anniversary of the famous rescue by Grace Darling and her father of survivors from the Forfarshire. The following article, which has been specially written for the Life-boat by Commander W....
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ALL friends of the Life-boat cause will be gratified at the announcement that H.R.H. the DUKE or YORK, our sailor prince, who has for several years been a Vice-Patron of the Institution, has now graciously accepted the post of President of...
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Captain of the darts team of The Swan public house at Faringdon, Oxfordshire, Jimmy Richens, looks remarkably sharp eyed considering this photograph was taken during a gruelling 24-hour marathon in aid of the local RNLI branch. The marathon... - View image in PDF
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ABERSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at Abersoch, near Pwll- heli. A large number of vessels are often at anchor in St. Tudwell's Roads off that place, which are liable to accident or...
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Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 1.40 p.m. on Monday, 1st February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Berwick Harbour Commissioners pilot boat went out to bring in the Dutch coaster...
YOUR CLUB IN MAY FAIR if you join THE NAVAL CLUB Founded by RNVR Officers at the end of the last war. The Naval Club in Mayfair welcomes Members of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.
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OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...
THREE MEN who had set out to cross the Inner Wash from the River Nene to Hunstanton in a bathtub on Monday September 13, 1982, were reported overdue at 2115; the tub was lashed to inner tubes and an inflatable dinghy and powered by an...