RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. — Fourteen Whitby cobles being overtaken by a rough sea while fishing on the 13th Feb. 1900, were unable to return home and were seen to be making for Runswick. The Life-boat Gape of Good Hope was launched at 1.30 P.M....
Category: Services
THE RIGHT HON. LORD TWEEDMOUTH, LORD PRIVY SEAL AND CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. Lord TWEEDMOUTH.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRK- BBCK, Bart., V.P., Chairman...
Category: Meetings
The RNLI took on the running of Cowes Lifeboat Station on the Isle of Wight in 2008. Based in a small, temporary facility within Shepards Wharf Marina, Cowes lifeboat launched 41 times last year and rescued 49 people.
Now,...
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NOVEMBER 16TH. - RUNSWICK, SCARBOROUGH, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A British bomber aeroplane had been reported down some miles out at sea, and later it was reported that another bomber was down, but nothing was found by the...
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Category: Advertisement
Pictured with the giant cheque for £360,000 from the Famous Grouse Whisky promotion are (left to right) - Mr John MacPhail, Chairman of Matthew Gloag & Son Ltd., Anthony Oliver, RNLI's head of fund-raising, the Duke of Atholl,... - View image in PDF
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FOR THE PRESERVATION OP LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon.'r Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.<...
Category: Medals
Thurrock branch members turned a derelict ship's lifeboat given to the branch chairman, Sherwin A.
Chase, by a Grays firm of ship breakers into an Oakley lifeboat 'replica'. She is named Henry de Grey and now is... - View image in PDF
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Respect the Water – the RNLI’s safety campaign – launched throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland this Summer. The campaign was bigger than ever, with thought-provoking adverts in cinemas, on radio, the web and in the press, all in the...
Category: Articles
While trying to help the yachtsmen the inflatable dinghy was capsized. The two lifeboatmen who had been manning her and one of Melfort's crew, swept down to Derby Haven breakwater, were successfully lifted from the sea by the crew of the... - View image in PDF
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