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Manchester & Salford's Appeal.
One of the 19 life-boats which went to Dunkirk at the end of May 1940, never returned. Four months later the Manchester and Salford branch launched a special appeal for £10,000 to replace this boat. It will be the 29th. life-boat...
Category: Articles
Jojephil
At 8.20 p.m. on 2oth July, 1967, a message was received that distress signals had been observed at a position four miles north of Moelfre. The IRB was launched to investigate a report of a cabin cruiser in difficulties. On reaching the...
Our Shoreline Volunteer Enrolment Team Which Had Such a Fine Record at the London International Boat Show In January Was Back at Earls Court In March Hard at Wor
Our Shoreline volunteer enrolment team which had such a fine record at the London International Boat Show in January was back at Earls Court in March hard at work throughout the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Three hundred new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Aith, Shetlands.-—On the 9th of Jan- uary, 1956, the doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him and a relieving nurse to Foula, because con- tinuous bad weather had isolated the island for nearly a month and at least two people...
A Motor Boat
FAILED TO START At 9.15 p.m. on the following day, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down between the North pier and Wreck buoy, and the crew were waving for help. Two minutes...
Notes to the Accounts
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS 1 LIFE-BOATS The cost of replacing the existing fleet is approximately £13,000,000 (1970 £12,000,000). The committee has at present resolved to replace certain life-boats, the cost of which is estimated at...
Category: Accounts
Notes of the Quarter
In his report on the past year's work at the Annual General Meeting of the Institution, which is given on page 70, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., the Chairman, described the past year as one of outstanding success in the...
Category: Articles
Returning from the Sands
The Walmer life-boat and her crew The 'last photograph is by Mr. Bert. Hardy, of Picture Post, and is reproduced by kind permission of that paper. The other photographs are by Mr. George Goldsmith Carter, author of Looming Lights, A True... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services to Foreign Vessels In 1920
IN his address at the Annual Meeting, the Prince of Wales referred to the number of services to foreign vessels performed during 1920, and said that there was " no nation possessing a coast- line and any ships which had not benefited at...
Category: Services