The Blackpool life-boat coming ashore after searching for a swimmer.. - View image in PDF
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death the Institution greatly regrets is Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend- on-Sea, who died on 1st January at the age of sixty-eight. For eighteen years he was the honorary secretary of the station. He was appointed in 1914, and retired in...
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(Right) A stained glass window has been donated to Cullercoats Methodist Church by Mrs E. J. Scot! in memory of her brother, John Heddon Scott, lout in the Cullercoats J93St lifeboat disaster. It was designed and painted by Geoff R. Ramm and... - View image in PDF
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The Dublin lifeboat spring sale of work was held in the Royal Dublin Society on Friday March 9. With over 300 voluntary workers involved it is the single largest fund-raising event in Ireland for the lifeboat service. Mrs...
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Breakfast, lunch or dinner, RNLI crew leave their families at a moment’s notice to save lives at sea. And this October, we hope you’ll answer our rescue call over dinner too – by hosting a fundraising Fish Supper. From 14–16 October, we need...
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SIMPLY THE BASTE!
Our superfit supporters raise thousands for the RNLI through running events. And at Christmas they were joined by a new team mate: the animated turkey Captain McStuffing. Our feathered fundraiser
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THE great storm of the 31st of January —1st of February, 1953, has had a chronicler of distinction in Mr. J.
Lennox Kerr.* Mr. Kerr has recorded the happen- ings at sea around our coasts on those two extraordinary days when...
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Again, on the 12th July, two lads, in a small sailing-boat, were driven out to sea during a strong wind from the S.S.W., and being unable to return, they dropped anchor, and tied a cravat on an oar, as a signal to those, on shore, which...
AT 1.8 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station in County Down, Mr.
S. C. B. Bryans, that the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl of 270 tons was...
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National INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. ESTABLISHED IN SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS. PATRONESS. HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. VICE-FATUOUS. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. HIS MAJESTY THE...
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