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In the first two years of war life-boats have rescued 4058 lives. They have rescued more lives in these two years of war than in the last eleven years of peace.
They have rescued 39 lives each week. They have rescued a life...
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Members of Uttoxer Ladies' Guild made the most of their local festival by entering a 'float' in the procession.
A 'float' was an appropriate name, as they borrowed a publicity inshore lifeboat from their... - View image in PDF
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BY the death of Captain Charles John Philip Cave, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.A.S., F.R.P.S., J.P., of Petersfield, on Decem- ber 8th, 1950, in his eightieth year, the Committee of Management have lost their oldest member. Captain Cave was elected to...
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THE Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, was closed at the end of October. The Institution had its own pavilion1 where it exhibited the motor life-boat of the 46-feet Watson cabin type which had been built on the...
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NORTH BERWICK.—The schooner Oberscew, from Dychling for Burntisland, laden with esparto grass, stranded on the rocks at Seacliff Point during a strong E.N.E.
breeze, a very rough sea and a thick fog on the 29th March. A...
Two saved after ten-hour service in south westerly gale Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Waveney class lifeboatBarham was involved in an arduous, ten-hour service to a yacht on 10 July 1988. The service, in gale force conditions, has been...
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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On the 20th July news was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat appeared to be in distress about three miles W.S.W.
from Bill Tower look-out. The occu- pants were waving a coat or flag. The motor life-boat...
The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.
Although he...