Awards to Lifeboatmen Alan Thomas, coxswain of the Tenby lifeboat, has won the Maud Smith Award for 'the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman' during 1989.
The award follows the lifeboat's rescue...
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STORM ON THE WATERS The Story of the Life-boat Service in the War of 1939-1945 By CHARLES VINCE " Read it, and you will hear the gales roaring; no breeziness here, no mere soldier's wind, but a blow to match the courage of the...
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The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Thursday, the 19th day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Balfour of Burleigh, K.T., P.O., in the Chair,...
Category: Annual Reports
Storm Force Club Towards the end of last year, my branch started a Storm Force Club. This is not a group sharing corporate membership, but a club for youngsters who already have or who may be interested in having their own individual Storm...
Category: Correspondence
COVERACK, CORNWALL.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Coverack, where there is an active body of fisher- men, with a view to rendering assist- ance in case of wrecks on the Manacle Rocks, not far from...
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Norwegian Rescue Cruiser Off Leith. - View image in PDF
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More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Mallaig -- Scotland Division The beautiful setting of Mallaig is evident, with Loch Nevis stretching away to the east. The harbour entrance faces north between Coteachan...
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1st February to 30th April, 1935.
Greater London.
ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing on 29th April, the Mayoress of Acton, president, in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing...
Category: Branches
AGM 1988 The RNLI's annual meetings for 1988 will take place on Tuesday, May 10 at the South Bank, London. The governors' annual general meeting takes place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the annual presentation of...
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