WE regret to record the death, at the end of last September, of the Rev. R.
W. PEKIIY CIRCUITT, Vicar of Brixham since 1900, and Honorary Secretary of the Brixham and Paignton Branch of the Institution for the past fifteen...
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BY the death on 18th August, at the age of 68, of Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate, the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished coxswains.
Coxswain Read was appointed second 'coxswain about 1915, when the...
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ENGRAVED CRYSTAL GLASS LIFEBOAT TANKARDS Profiles of some of RNLI's offshore fleet, strikingly engraved on half or one pint Crystal Glass Tankards. Order individually or as sets, selecting the craft of your choice from the illustrations...
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THIS year the Institution will for the first time have a choice of two Christ- mas cards for sale, in addition to pocket calendars.
One card is a reproduction of a painting by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., which depicts the...
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Captain Graham C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who died on 10th December, 1931, was appointed a Member of the Committee of Manage- ment in 1922. He brought to the work of the Institution considerable ex- perience in the Mercantile Marine,...
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IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: Mrs I. P. Macintyre, patron of Airdrie branch since its re-constitution in 1980. Mrs Macintyre served as the guild honorary secretary from 1930 to 1957 and as president from 1957 to...
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Are you a homeowner over 70? poor: s If you are a homeowner aged over 70 (both over 70 if a couple) you may be able to release some of the money locked in your home to do the things you want.
* A tax-free cash lump sum to...
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LADY AXN, J.P., of Derby, who died on 17th January, at the age of eighty, had been a very great friend of the life-boat service for many years. She started her work for it in 1898, in the days of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and in 1911,...
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THERE has been a Life-boat at Cresswell, on the Northumbrian coast, for the last fifty years. What manner of place it is was described by the then Hon. Secre- tary in an article which appeared in! The Lifeboat in February,...
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THERE was a full southerly gale blowing off-New Brighton last September 15th, with frequent squalls of rain, and the sea was very rough. Soon after half- past one in the afternoon the coastguard noticed a three-masted schooner at anchor in...
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