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SUPPORT CONTINUES TO COME in from Amateur Swimming Association clubs for our appeal to organise sponsored swims to raise funds for the RNLI. To help clubs who arrange their programmes well in advance the swim can be arranged at any time over...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland
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The Royal Bank of Scotland
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Developing and supplying specialist equipment for over 4000 crew members is a very expensive exercise. The protective...
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Three Gallant Irish Fishermen
THE Institution has awarded Bronze Medals to three very gallant Irish fishermen, John Nolan, John Cahill and his son Joseph Cahill, of Tralee, Co. Kerry.
At 4.0 in the afternoon of 7th Novem- ber last, the S.S. Co-operator...
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Book Reviews
• The quality of lifeboat station histories seems to improve steadily. A recent outstanding example is The Men of The Mumbles Head by Carl Smith (J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gower Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, £3.50).
Mr Smith,...
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The Fishing Research Motor Vessel William Herdman (1)
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.
—About 4.30 in the afternoon, on the 6th of September, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port Erin life-boat station that the fishing re- search motor vessel William...
Life-Boat Wedding
IN 1957 Miss Christine Ford, who was then aged 15, became the youngest honorary secretary of a financial branch. The branch was Portslade in Sussex. Her parents are both enthusiastic supporters of the life-boat service and for many months... - View image in PDF
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For Some Time It Has Been the Practice of Apprentice Training Schools to Build
For some time it has been the practice of apprentice training schools to build clinker boarding boats for the Institution to an RNLI design. It is a practice of mutual benefit because clinker is the most skilled form of boat building, and so... - View image in PDF
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Dona Marika
Tanker aground A MESSAGE came to the Angle (Pembrokeshire) honorary secretary from St Anne's Head Coastguard at 9.8 p.m.
on August 5, 1973, to say that the oil tanker Dona Marika had run aground on Wooltack Point,...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
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