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The Competitive Trials of Life-Boats
THE decision of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to carry out exhaustive trials -with different types of Life-boats is an additional proof to those already given in various "ways that the governing body are determined not to sit...
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The Duke of Edinburgh Took a Keen Interest In the Experimental I.R.B. Which Has Been Constructed By the Boys, When He and the Queen Paid a Visit to Atlantic College, Glamorgan, on 25th June.
The Duke of Edinburgh took a keen interest in the experimental I.R.B., which has been constructed by the boys, when he and the Queen paid a visit to Atlantic College, Glamorgan, on 25th June. He is seen here with Commander D.G.Wicksteed, R.N... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Victorian Studio Picture—'snow' Is Falling—Of Coxswain James Cable, the Aldeburgh Life-Boatman, Who Once Retorted to a Pessimistic Onlooker: 'We Don'T Have to Come Back—But We Have to G
A Victorian studio picture—'snow' is falling—of Coxswain James Cable, the Aldeburgh life-boatman, who once retorted to a pessimistic onlooker: 'We don't have to come back—but we have to go out'.. - View image in PDF
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Aiming High! The Navy Again Took Part In Portsmouth Life-Boat Day. Among Others Who Helped Were the Portsmouth Brotherhood
Aiming High! The Navy Again Took Part In Portsmouth Life-Boat Day Among Others Who Helped Were The Portsmouth Brotherhood. - View image in PDF
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Medals of the Institution Granted to Naval and Marine Officers
IT has been repeatedly suggested that we, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION might publish a list of those officers of has been awarded. We accordingly the Royal Navy and Marines now living to place the same before our readers. It...
Category: Medals
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd October, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and...
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Lifeboat Services
South West Division Trapped under sea wall AT 1852 on Tuesday September 11, 1984, Lyme Regis honorary secretary was informed by Portland Coastguard that some people had been cut off by the tide at Black Beach groynes, some six cables to the...
Category: Services
Two Rowing Dinghies
FEAR OF BEING WINCHED At i.20 p.m. on 24th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing boat to the south of the lifeboathouse was having difficulty in the rough seas and very strong south-westerly breeze. It was...