IN the first quarter of 1961 exception- ally heavy demands were made on life- boat crews, as the figures for launches clearly reveal. The total number of launches on service in January, Febru- ary and March was 163. In the first three months...
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Ballycotton, Co. Cork—At 6.50 A.M. on the 1st January a message was received at the Coast-guard Signal Station from the captain of the s.s. Pinna, of London, to the effect that he was in distress and required immediate...
Category: Services
THURSDAY, 17th June, 1909.
Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Reported that the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Institution, with the Secre- tary and the Chief Inspector, had visited...
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THURSDAY, 1st June, 1882.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chair- man of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and...
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THURSDAY, 11th October, 1906. SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and...
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Thursday, 30th April, 1925.
Sir GODFREY BARING, St., in the Chair.
Reported the resignation from the Committee of Management of Engineer Vice- Admiral Sir GEORGE G. GOODWIN,...
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AU G U S T 2 N D . - G O U R D O N , K I N CARDINESHIRE. A German bomber hadbeen shot down by S.S. Highlander, one of two which she brought down, but no trace of the crew could be found. - Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..
AFTER the Edinburgh meeting the Prince of Wales travelled by special train to Glasgow and there attended a Ball, organised by the Glasgow Branch and held on board the s.s. Transylvania, lying in the Clyde. This is the second Ball which,...
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PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE 2 On the 23rd-26th January, 1942, the Peterhead life-boat rescued the crew of forty-four of the S.S. Runswick, the crew of twenty-six of the S.S. Fidra, and thirty-six of the crew of the S.S....
Category: Medals
THURSDAY, 2nd Jan., 1873: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and "Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
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