Aranmore and Greencastle, co. Donegal.
—The Anchor liner California, of Glas- gow—a vessel of nearly 9,000 tons register—stranded on the N.W. point of Tory Island, during a dense fog, on the evening of 28th June. She was...
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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At 6.30 P.M. on the 11 th November, information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares N. by W. from the Fore Ness Signal Station. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were promptly assembled and the...
The Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the painting on this page.
The original painting was by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., and shows the...
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THIRTEEN PRIZES were drawn in the RNLFs twenty-third national lottery on October 28, 1983, by 13 special guests to Poole HQ, all of whom had been involved in the National Soap Box Grand Prix, which, held at Blakesley, Northamptonshire, had...
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"Arthritis Beaten Today "Arthritis Beaten Today'." has already fascinated thousands of readers across Europe and USA. In his book. Dr Sands discusses his research at the San Diego clinic into the arthritic process, as well...
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"THE lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds- flew; Oh, wife, from the shores they cry, ' One more, With strong, steady hand, and true I' There are lives to save On the frothing wave— ' One...
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On the 8th March, 1859, the French brigantine Gonscdve, of Nantes, got embayed off Padstow, and, on making for the harbour, was caught by the eddy winds at the entrance, and driven by the tide and heavy sea on to the Doombar Sand, when her...
ANOTHER of those maritime disasters has occurred which only too frequently serve to remind us that travelling on the sea is still attended with greater danger than travelling by land.
This time it is a collision between...
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From a Cripple's Home.
THE Tiny Tims Cripples Home at Eastbourne Las sent to the Eastbourne Branch a gift of 11s. 9d., made up of the children's own farthings. This is the second time that the Tiny Tims have given...
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