Saturday, 15th May, 1897.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Relatives and friends watching the arrival from Scrabster of the Kirkwall lifeboat bringing home to Hoy the seven coffins. …. - View image in PDF
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: November 5 and December 2 Relief 52ft Arun: January 26 and February 9 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 4 Aldeburgh, Suffolk Relief 42ft Beach: December 30 and January 5 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in...
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IN the February 1896 number of the Life-boat Journal it will be remembered that the account of the growth of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION'S fleet of Life-boats was brought up to 1885, the fleet then consisting of 284 boats....
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The Natural Navigator
By Tristan Gooley
Review by David Price
Let this book take you back to navigational basics with some intriguing techniques.
It is...
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A commemorative vellum has been awarded by the Institution to Messrs.
J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd., who built 134 life-boats for the Institution between 1898 and 1964. Last year the firm ceased building wooden boats at...
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Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and St.
Andrews, Fifeshire.—On the 27th De- cember the steam trawler Ebor Abbey, of Aberdeen, ran aground on the Carr Rocks, Fife Ness, while bound with a crew of nine to Granton for bunker coal.<...
Totton and District branch is organising no less than 12 fund-raising events in 1980, and has distributed its programme to 8,000 homes in its area. The first event, a jumble sale in February, realised £313. The branch received donations...
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