Mo/lie Froom presents a centenary tapestry to Co.vswain Arthur Harman and Ken Broad, Clacton's honorary secretary; Jack t'room is on the left. In her tapestry, Mrs Froom embroidered the names of Clacton's lifeboats and coxswains... - View image in PDF
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The Tyne class lifeboat Ethel Anne Measures stationed at The Mumbles was at sea for five hours on 28 January 1994 when she stood by the 560ft Indian-registered freighter Vishva Parag whose cargo had shifted causing her to list heavily. She... - View image in PDF
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FOR the sixth year running the Institu- tion has received from a lady in Hamp- stead the gift of a year's collection of halfpennies. It numbers 216, or nine shillings..
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THE Institution has just received a pound from one of its regular con- tributors, a post-master, who describes how he made it.
"This is collected by me. I keep a small news agency. There are no returns...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1955 79,860 Notes of the Quarter THE first good summer which Britain and...
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Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....
Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 532 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager:...
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An unconventional launch followed by 8 hours at sea in near gale force conditions – ‘business as usual,’ say the crew of The Lizard lifeboat, Cornwall.
At midnight on Saturday 11 September the crew assembled on the village...
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During 1975 Dublin branch and ladies' guild achieved the fine result of £24,000. Of this amount £5,874 came from the lifeboat shop run by Mrs Montague Kavanagh and her helpers, and £4,198 was raised in a one-day spring...
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Baltimore and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Garda at Castle- townshend telephoned that the local yacht Charis had put out the day before and had not returned. At two...