The 52ft Barnett relief lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse, while at Ramsey during a passage from Holyhead to Arranmore, launched on the morning of January 23 to take over from HMS Soberton the tow of Dutch, a converted ship's... - View image in PDF
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Appledore boathouse opening The official opening and dedication of the Appledore lifeboat house took place on 29 September 2001. Storm Force member Harriet Weatherby Crompton (12) cut the ribbon and officially declared the boathouse open.<... - View image in PDF
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When the war in Europe ended sixteen months ago, six life-boats were in the yard waiting to be finished. Four of them have since gone to the coast.
Of the 29 life-boats which the Institution had planned to build as soon as...
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Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
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LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
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By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.
I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...
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1st April. A small rowing boat was in difficulties, but was safely beached at Seaford.— Rewards, £5 16s..
WE have much pleasure in publishing the following letter from Dr. PAGET-BLAKE, of Torquay, which shows the importance of retaining in the new Directions of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION a portion of Dr. MARSHALL HALL'S...
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