THE Scottish Council held the first of its meetings for 1928 on 26th March, in Glasgow. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Council, presided, and there were representatives present from Glasgow, Buckie, Perth, Greenock...
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More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence
Since ihc last Annual Presentalion of Awards, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Life Governorships. 2 Records of Thanks. 5 Bar In Gold Badges and 76 Gold Badges. Awtinli't'. not inteniiini the APA ttiv shown with tin mfrmi...
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Naming and dedication Ceremonies Relief Fleet- Arun class Duke of Atholl The City Chambers at Dundee became the scene of great activity on Saturday 12 May 1990 when the Duke of Atholl's private army disembarked from buses and tuned their...
Category: Inaugurations
Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...
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Mike Floyd, Editor of THE LIFEBOAT, joins a crew preparing to take delivery of their new Mersey The lifeboat crew were about to haul a survivor aboard when an unmistakable siren broke into their ordered efforts.
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CHANGE OF TITLE OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the "Royal...
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FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...
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IT will be remembered that this com- petition was started in 1918 and proved a great success, over 5,000 schools taking part. It was continued in the two following years, and though each year there was a considerable decrease in the number...
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THE Institution has received a personal letter from His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (the Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, D .D.), commending to Catholics the appeal of the life-boat service. It is dated 25th June, 1938.
Category: Correspondence