THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
VERY CLOSE TO THE SEA are people of the Isle of Man. Set in the Irish Sea almost equidistant between England and Ireland, with Scotland to the north and Wales to the south, not only is the island itself dependent on sea trade but is lies...
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A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
When the Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 55) docked at Broad Quay, Bristol, in preparation for Bristol Life-boat Day, television announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the...
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The Presbyterian Church of England and the Society of Friends.
IN addition to the numerous thanks- giving services which were arranged individually by Branches, two Churches, the Presbyterian Church of England, and the...
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THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...
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THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in...
Category: Advertisement
KESSINGLAXD, SUFFOLK.—In the ac- count we gave, in our 15th Number, of the establishment of a life-boat by the seamen of Scratby, in Norfolk, we stated that we hoped to see this novel feature in the cause of "preservation of life from...
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OTHER IRB LAUNCHES In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 197 .and 201 the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1969, January and February, 1970,...
Category: Services