IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...
Category: Articles
THE British Broadcasting Corporation took the opportunity of the visit of life-boatmen to London for the annual meeting to put the life-boat service on the air. There were four broadcasts that week, and a fifth three weeks...
Category: Articles
Mrs. Mary E. Pecover, an honorary life-governor of the Institution, died on loth February, 1964. She was appointed honorary secretary of the Thame branch in 1925, received the gold badge awarded to honorary workers nine years later, and...
Category: Obituaries
The late Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Longhope, who lost his life when the life-boat capsized on 17th March, had a few days before been told that he had been elected to receive the annual gift of £5 from the Miss Maud Smith endow-...
Category: Awards
Flying colours: the annual service for seafarers at St Paul's Cathedral in October was attended by the RNLI's President, The Duke of Kent. To represent the Institution's lifeboat crews, seven men from Kent and Essex stations were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sittingbourne's celebrated whistling postman, Dale Howling, completed his eighth annual charity cycle ride for Sittingbourne branch in just two days in May last year. Dale cycled nearly 200 miles visiting en route all eight Kent lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Maldon Little Ship Club's annual sponsored row, held on Boxing Day, produced a magnificent £9,760 in aid of the lifeboats - bringing the total raised by the sailing club in the last six years to £48,000.
In... - View image in PDF
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Daventry and District branch members and friends raised a total of £2,245 at this year's annual Braunstone Boat Show held on the Grand Union Canal at Braunstone, Daventry over the Spring bank holiday weekend. The three day event is... - View image in PDF
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THE 34th Annual Meeting of the Com- mittee of this Fund was held on the 17th January, 1901, and was presided over by Mr. Charles G. Turner, C.B.
Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Honorary Secretary, reported that not withstand- ing...
Category: Meetings