WHEN PLANNING the Shoreline appeal to fund a 37'6" Rother Lifeboat to be named RNLB Shoreline, the first target set was £100,000 by the time the boat is ready to launch for her initial trials.
That target is...
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The chairman of Saintfield branch, Belfast, has written a history of the parish which is being sold in connection with the bicentenary of the re-building of its church and, as an appreciation of his work, the Select Vestry has given £50...
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MEN DIVED FOR BOY AT about 7.30 p.m. on 14th March, 1971, Mr.
John Hodder, a member of the Lyme Regis, Dorset, ILB crew, was working on the Cobb when he heard cries for help. As the ILB was off service for the winter months...
Thursday, 8th April, 1868: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq.,F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
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WE much regret to have again to record the death of another tried friend and valuable supporter of, the Shipwreck Institution, in the person of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., its late esteemed Chairman. Although he had occupied that office...
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F k. MMi M Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT TE BOAT] TEA No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal...
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Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT BOAT TEA BAGS No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal National...
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RYE.—The night patrol reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel off the west end of Broom Hill on the 24th November. The crew of the Mary Stanford Life-boat were immediately assembled, and the Boat put off at 8...
Mallaig lifeboat crew endured a 10-hour shout in horrendous conditions to save the 1,300-tonne coaster Red Duchess off the Isle of Rum, a small island of the Inner Hebrides, on 2 November.
Coxswain Michael Ian Currie says:...
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Greater London.
BROMLEY AND COVENT GARDEN.— Life-boat Days.
BALING.—Addresses to Groavenor Ward Women's Conservative Association and the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secretary. Life-boat...
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