THE FISHERMAN
Sam Cully was fishing off the coast of County Down on 18 September when his boat started sinking.
The conditions were rough – there...
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Last of the Sailing Life-Boats The William Cantrell Ashley Sails Away From New Quay Cardigan. - View image in PDF
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1938.
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IN 1951 life-boats went out to the help of yachts 120 times. That figure includes sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts. It is nearly a quarter of the total of launches for the year, which was...
Category: Services
Maxstoke Castle, near Colehill, is open to the public on only two days of the year, each time in aid of a charity. The turn of the RNLI (above) was a huge success when on a beautiful afternoon last July £1,795 was... - View image in PDF
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Last Summer, we appealed to RNLI supporters to make a donation to help support our volunteer crews.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to our Summer appeal, which raised a total of £1,209,077. Your support is...
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This stormy nautical window display at Fiona's, Fore Street, won first prize in a window display competition organised by the Trowbridge branch of the R.N.L.I. in March, 1969.. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...
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For which Rewards were given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
F~ Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — On the morning of the 8th January the fishing boat...
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THE Institution has its own pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The pavilion has been built for the Institu- tion by Sir John Burnet, Tait & Larne, architects of the...
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