DUBIXG the war our life-boat men were condemned by some people because they rescued those, who (in the opinion of certain folk) should have been left to perish. Some of these angry people wrote letters to the papers to ask why the men who...
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JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...
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Just as ships in distress know they can depe on the men of Britain's life-boats, so in t emergency of fire the R.N.L.I, ere wsthemseh know they can depend upon t sure and unfailing protect! of the "Pyrene" Fire Ext...
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The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.
In figs. 1 and 2, the...
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Information having been received at this station about 9 A.M.
on the 30th November, at which time it was blowing a gale from the N.E., ac- companied by snow squalls, that a vessel had been wrecked on the Fidra Island, 3...
North Sunderland lifeboat crew look on while Jane Sutherland, grand-daughter of Lady Sutherland, president of the ladies' guild, presents a salmon to Bill Steel of Tyne Tees Television who opened the annual lifeboat fete at Seahouses.... - View image in PDF
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Chubb Fire CHUBB FIRE MARINE SERVICE CENTRES (The complete marine fire protection survey, inspection, service and supply facility.) MERSEYSIDE: Tel. 061-766 7721 Telex. 665236 ABERDEEN: Tel. 0224 896019 Telex. 739535 GREAT YARMOUTH: Tel....
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1931.
£ s. d.
32 18 0 «•—• Construction and Repair of Life-boats, Carriages and...
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THE life-boat station at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, took part in a very interesting event during July—the welcome which was given to men and women from Fraserburgh living in Canada, the United States, South Africa and various places of...
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THE following report is reproduced from Stage Coach, the magazine of General Western National, Royal Blue, Devon and Greenslades coaches.
'To be able to answer an urgent call for assistance from an organisation which is...
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