Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat developed by RNLI from a design originated at Atlantic College, South Wales. Hull, flat-bottomed for beaching, is marine ply or grp with inflatable topsides. Console seat for crew of three contains radio. Speed... - View image in PDF
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THE Centenary celebrations concluded, just before the Institution reached its 101st birthday, with two Bazaars, one in Birmingham and the other in London.
The Birmingham Bazaar, which was called the Life-boat International...
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(Top) Malcolm Grant (centre left), the winner of the Volvo in the RNLI's 60th national lottery with his wife Margaret (centre right) at the handing over ceremony in Cardiff. Photo Barry Webb (Above) Comedian Billy Burden draws the... - View image in PDF
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A scene in Trafalgar Square on London life-boat day.. - View image in PDF
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MR. D. L. HOBBS has been appointed Organising Secretary for the Midlands district.
Mr. Hobbs served during the war as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm. For six years after the war he was in the Colonial Service in Malaya, and...
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confer the decoration of the Albert Medal of the second class on Sub-lieutenant LIONEL ANDROS DE SAUSMAREZ, R.N., of Her Ma- jesty's ship Myrmidon. The following is an account of the services in respect of which the decoration has been...
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Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
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On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Augusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of Bristol" j...
Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S., late Governor of the Bank of England, and seconded by Rear-Admiral C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B.
1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
Moved by...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 7.15 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a radio mess- age received from a local fishing boat stating that she had struck a...