From an Old Carthusian.
ON Trafalgar Day last year the Institu- tion received the following letter :— " In accordance with an old-estab- lished custom, I have pleasure in for- warding, in order to reach you on the 21st...
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BEFOHK the middle of October the Institution's life-boats had already rescued more lives this year than they rescued in the whole of 1956, although 19,56 was the busiest year the service had ever known in time of peace.
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Listen very carefully. . . as Rene draws the lotteryGorden Kaye who stars as Rene in television's 'Allo 'Allo, drew the winning tickets of the 74th lifeboat lottery at Poole on 31 July 1996.
Brian Miles, RNLI...
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GRACE DARLING. An early Life-boat heroine.
In 1838, she and her father rescued nine people stranded on a rock, survivors from the wrecked ship For far- shire, of Dundee. They won Silver Medals.
(From the...
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January gales A HALFDECKER motor fishing boat was seen to be dragging her anchors off Arranmore, Aran Island, on the afternoon of Wednesday January 11, 1984.
A gale was blowing from the north west, the seas were very rough...
(Above bottom) 0-733 - a B class (and therefore an Atlantic) with the 700-plus number indicating a '75' rather than a '2T.. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Man £73 eiqht 91/2" CHARACTERS OF THE SEA1 from Royal Doulton Govier's of Sidmouth are pleased to offer you this opportunitj of acquiring Royal Doulton's "Characters of the Sea" and at the same time make...
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MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...
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(See Diagrams on next page.) The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the...
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SEATON CAREW, DURHAM.—On the night of April 12th, signals of distress were observed on the North Gare Sand, at the entrance to the River Tees, the wind from the S.E. with a high sea on. The Seaton Carew life-boat was at once launched and...
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