BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
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THURSDAY, 4fh January, 1872. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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The Royal National Life-Boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Con- ference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all life-boat societies. The...
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THE Flag Officer Air (Home) has sent a gift of £50 from his Benevolent Fund and in doing it says that he wishes to mention in particular work done by the Institution's stations at Portrush and Padstow. These stations have been out...
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To Mr. Robert Fraser, honorary secretary and treasurer of Airh branch, are expressed apologies for inadvertently stating that he had retired in the June number of THE LIFE-BOAT. Mr. Fraser, who was presented with a barometer in recognition...
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A small service to help a great one Rentokil is proud to have helped in the renovation of a number of R.N.L.I, stations and to have served an Institution whose own traditions of service are without parallel.
RENTOKIL...
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On the night of the 16th March, the schooner Eliza, of Shields, missed stays and was driven ashore three-quarters of a mile from the Palling life-boat station. The life-boat was quickly launched and proceeded to her, landing her crew, 7 in...
NOVEMBER 29TH. - ABERDEEN, AND NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A steamer had foundered after being in collision, but all her crew, fifty-four in number, were saved by their own boats and rafts and by another vessel. - Rewards : Aberdeen, £6...
JANUARY MEETING BARROW, LANCASHIRE, and MILLOM, CUMBERLAND.
At four in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1942, the naval base asked the Barrow life-boat station to search for an aeroplane which had crashed north of...
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THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.
Although the Society ("...
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