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As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...

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FEBRUARY 2ND. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Flares had been reported two miles off Troup Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards £7 6s. 6d.

A CENTURY AGO lifeboat crews were nearly all fishermen who spent most of their time working at sea and were well used to long periods of exposure in harsh conditions. Their lifeboats, although the best of their day, were simple open boats...

OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.

Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...

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New members for RNLI Committee of Management Four new members were appointed to serve on the RNLI's Committee of Management-the Institution's trustees and controlling body - at its meeting on 28 November 1996.

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OF all the calamities to which the human race is liable, unless it be that of unceasing pain, there is perhaps none which we each of us dread so much in our own persons, or sympathize with so greatly when beheld in others, as loss of sight....