From a Cripple's Home.
THE Tiny Tims Cripples Home at Eastbourne Las sent to the Eastbourne Branch a gift of 11s. 9d., made up of the children's own farthings. This is the second time that the Tiny Tims have given...
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Two views of Henry Browne's 'Port-hole' compass: fitted into main bulkhead, it projects fore and aft into cabin and cockpit.. - View image in PDF
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In Gratitude.
ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea, when the...
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St Helier: (right) The crew of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Thomas James King for the service on September 3, 1983, to the French yacht Cythara: (I to r) Crew Members William Hibbs and John Gray, Coxswain Michael Berry, who was awarded a bar to... - View image in PDF
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Moelfre: H. L. C. Greig, chairman of H. - View image in PDF
Clarkson (Holdings) Ltd, strikes out the pin to launch the 37ft 6in Rather Horace Clarkson.. - View image in PDF
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The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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Robert Wrey MBE - Seahouses lifeboat station Chairman and former Lifeboat Operations Manager.
Category: Obituaries
The R.N.L.I. Christmas card for 1968 will feature a reproduction of an excellent colour transparency showing the Skegness life-boat at sea. The card will sell at 9d., complete with envelope.
There will also be for the first...
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DO YOUR BIT FUND OUR KIT
Mayday is the RNLI's biggest fundraising campaign of the year.
Our crew members don't do anything by halves; when the call comes, they drop everything to save lives. But...
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JANUARY DURIXG January life-boats were launched 41 times and rescued 37 lives.
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FISHING FLEET Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at...
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