Alaska Cruise & the Canadian Rockies Every booking benefi ts the RNLI from £1599 Let your spirit soar higher than an American eagle on this epic journey into the heart of the ‘Big Lonely’, Alaska. Once only the hardiest souls could...
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A new member of the Fishponds branch of the R.N.L.I., Mr. Martin Rowe, organised a 'Guess my weight' competition, plus a skittles evening, at the Railway Hotel, Fishponds, near Bristol—and raised over...
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By the death of Mrs. Lallow, Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at West Cowes, on 8th March, the Institution has lost one of its most successful and enthusiastic honorary workers. Mrs. Lallow had been a Lifeboat worker for...
Category: Obituaries
RNLI lifeguards are now on duty in Norfolk and Pembrokeshire. Liz Cook reports on the charity’s drive to put life first on ever more beaches
2007was a breakthrough year for the RNLI. Its lifeguarding service, already...
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Jazz on a different day Cheltenham branch has recently circulated some 1,000 copies of its busy fundraising diary-but unfortunately the date of the Jazz train event, originally scheduled for 27 July 1996, has had to be changed to 3 August...
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Thursday, 1st Sept., 1864. Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Keward...
Category: Committee
John Corin, president of Coverack Branch since the early 1970's. He joined the committee in 1951 and was appointed branch auditor. He was chairman and deputy launching authority from 1956 to 1979 when the lifeboat was withdrawn.
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some r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d THE STORY OF THE PWLLHELI LIFEBOATS (1891-1991) by Jeff Morris THE STORY OF THE FRASERBURGH LIFEBOATS by Jeff Morris Both published by Jeff Morris at £2 including p&p The...
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The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., made his first trip in a life-boat and took part in a life-saving exercise at sea during his visit to the Isle of Wight on 21st October.
The boat was the Jack Shayler and...
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WE have from time to time advocated in the strongest terms the supply of efficient life-belts to the crews of all our merchantships, and have pointed out the duty that devolves on shipowners to provide'the same, although the law of the...
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