Lady Norton, a member of the Committee of Management, presented the RNLI 1977 public relations awards on the jetty of the central feature—Brighton Marina—on the first Sunday of the show. One was to members of that staunch band of lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Almost every aspect of boat design is linked. A larger lifeboat, like the Arun or new FAB prototypes, needs a cut-away section amidships to bring the deck close enough to the water to recover survivors. This cut-away section removes volume... - View image in PDF
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Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been driven ashore on the Great Keragh, and that a man and a woman had waded in from her. At 8.30 the...
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.IT will be remembered that at the Inter- Comnational Life-boat Conference, held in London on 1st and 2nd July, 1924, in which representatives of nine nations took part, a resolution was...
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The R.N.L.I. last year received a cheque for £18 10s. 9d. from the Governor of H.M. Prison for Women, Wilmslow. This amount was raised at a sale of work held in aid of the Institution, and the items sold were made by those in Barker...
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SINCE the issue of the Parliamentary Report last July, which stated that the charges of mismanagement brought against the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION with regard to the Life-boat Saturday Fund were " entirely without...
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The four-masted barque Inverness-shire, when coming up channel on the 19th February, in a strong gale and very heavy sea, hoisted signals for assistance when off Totland Bay.
The Life-boat Robert Fleming was promptly...
For thirty months, from September 1943 to February 1946, the Canadian Red Cross Society made a monthly gift to the Life-boat Service. These gifts totalled £1,790..
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PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—The Life- boat on this station, in compliance with the urgent and repeated requests of the crew, has been replaced by a smaller boat, for it was found that, on account of there not being a sufficient number of men on...
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