The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette recently called attention in a leading article to the advisability of the use of oil during rough weather at sea under certain favourable conditions. They remarked that it was gratifying to observe that...
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THE Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held ; on the 20th ultimo, and was presided j over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH II. [ KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that, not- withstanding...
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AT the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 15th January and presided over by Mr. CHABLKB G. TUBNEB, C.B., Controller- General of Inland Bevenne, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there...
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CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.
Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. K.G.
Vice-Patrons — His Grace the DUKE OF RUTLAND, K.G.
The Most Hon. the MABQUIS OF RIPON,...
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THE annual match for the Baring Cup was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 20th January, on the ground once again kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co., Ltd., of Charlton, Kent. The result was a win...
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Although the Cullercoats, Northumberland, life-boat station has been closed, support for the life-boat service is as strong as ever it was. All local fund-raising events are to go on as usual, those for the rest of the year being a coffee...
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Subscription rates Shoreline goes from strength to strength; there are 116,000 members at the moment with hundreds of new applications received at RNLI headquarters every month. Inevitably, subscription rates must keep in line with rising...
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Lifeboatmen from Skegness formed the RNLI's colour party at the Annual National Service for Seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral on 14 October 1992. Coxswain/mechanic Paul Martin, the colour bearer, escorted by crew members Raymond... - View image in PDF
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THE Institution desires to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, Ltd., Messrs. W. and R. Jacob, Ltd., and Messrs. Peak Frean and Co., Ltd., for gifts of biscuitsj for use in the Life-boats; also to Messrs. Cadbury...
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Wick, Caithness-shire.—23rd October, 1939. The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and has last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M.
Two...