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Nationwide Mobility
DIRECT from the factory, our new range has been specially designed to incorporate the most advanced comfort features available, bringing you lasting pain relief from a wide range of medical conditions includmg- • arthritis • stress and...
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Maxwell
The full-rigged ship Maxwell, 1,800 tons, of Liverpool, left that port on the morning of the 19th July, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of coal. She was towed by the steam-tug Great Western and, on arriving near the North-West...
Three Men Rescued from Lobster Boat
AT 2.25 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1955, the Kilchoman coast- guard telephoned a report which he had received from a farmer. This was that a fishing boat was in distress off Smaull Point on the north-west coast of...
Category: Services
The Storms of October and November Last—Life-Boat Services
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The Annual Meeting
The first full annual meeting for five years was held in London on October 25th., *nd H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, presented the eight gold medals won during the war for conspicuous...
Category: Articles
Mr. Lloyd George and the Criccieth Life-Boat Crew
At the back are Dame Margaret Lloyd George, G.B.E., and Mr. J. E. Greaves, Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire. - View image in PDF
On the right of Mr. Lloyd George is Mr. W. T. Davtes, the Hon. Secretary. (See page 564.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The West and East German Lifeboat Organisations
The West and East German lifeboat organisations have now combined to form a single lifeboat service. This is the former West German 'daughter boat' Onkel W/ffi being recovered aboard the parent vessel during a demonstration at the... - View image in PDF
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A Trawler
Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas Dawson of North Sunderland, who has been coxswain since September 1955. Before that he served as bowman for twelve years and second coxswain for more than four years. He first became a regular...
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