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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904
IT is fifty years this year since George Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of Glasgow, was appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution.
Looking back over these fifty years, one can say that Mr. Watson's...
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Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1950, January and February, 1951. 135 Lives Rescued
DURING December life-boats went out on service 40 times and rescued 60 lives.
PROPELLER FOULED, ANCHOR CHAIN BROKEN Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 1st of December, 1950, distress signals...
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The French Motor Ketch Ster Vras
Penlee, Cornwall.—6th July, 1939.
Flares had been reported and the French motor ketch Ster Vras was found, but she did not need help.— Rewards, £14 15s..
Swimming
THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have frequently brought under their notice lamentable instances of persons being drowned, from the capsizing or swamping of boats, who might probably have been saved had they been...
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Caroline in real life
Mum, wife, broadcaster and self-styled nosey parker Caroline Quentin explains how her new series brought her up close and personal with lifeboating
‘Oh do shut up darlings!’ calls Caroline...
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Old Age and the Life-Boat Service
Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.
An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but...
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City of Waterford
HELICOPTER AIDS RESCUE At 9.30 a.m. on i2th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel City of Waterford of Dublin, six miles southwest of St. Catherine's Point, was on fire and that the crew of...