ON 14th December last, the Queen unveiled the memorial, which has been erected on Tower Hill, to the 12,649 men of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets who gave their lives in the Great War and who have no grave but the...
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Mr. John H. Amos, of Middles- brough, Yorkshire, who died on 12th June, at the age of eighty-four, was for twenty years an honorary official of the Middlesbrough branch. He became its honorary treasurer in 1911, and its honorary secretary in...
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Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.. who died on 6th May at the age of eighty- five, had spent twenty-nine years of his life in the service of the Institu- tion. Born in 1850, he entered the navy in 1863, and served in it for eighteen years....
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H.R.H. THE PRINCESS LOUISE, Duchess of Argyll, who died on 3rd December, 1939, at the age of ninety-one, had for many years been personally associated with the work of the Institution. She became president of its Kensington branch in 1914....
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On the 31st of January, 1953, two members of the crew of the Islay. Inner Hebrides, life-boat collapsed in the engine-room and died while the life- boat was searching for the trawler Michael Griffiths. This was the day on which the Princess...
On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...
The Relief fleet Tyne class lifeboat Mariners Friend on the River Medina during the naming and dedication ceremony held at Cowes Base on Wednesday 20 September 1989. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 531 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager:...
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To W. J. HANNANT, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 11 years as Bowman of the Hasborough Life-boat, a Pension.
To CHARLES H. HARVEY, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after...
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...