4 September: Hunstanton After receiving reports of a narrow boat in difficulty, the volunteer crew of Hunstanton lifeboat were called to investigate. They found onboard a lone sailor and two dogs. When they...
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September Meeting.
St. Helier, Jersey. — On the 17th May the sailing boat Seafarer had put out with three people on board. On the following day, as she had not returned, it was decided to make a search. Mr. J. Langlois lent...
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Management.
Thursday, 21st January, 192S.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Reported the resignation of Captain SELWYN H. DAY, C.B., D.S.O., R.N.R., from the Committee of...
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IN spite of the diatribes of pacificists against war as a relic of barbarism and the embodiment of all evil, the present stupendous struggle has once again proved that, notwithstanding the horrors, t h e misery and the grief which war brings...
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THURSDAY, 3rd January, 1881.
Colonel FiTzROY CLAYTON, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-...
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(Above) A modem lifeboat is complex... |ust a small part of the wiring, switches and circuit breakers for the engine and equipment in the process of inslallation.. - View image in PDF
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(left) St Ives harbour nestles in shelter of St Ives Head, known locally as The Island', protected from westerly winds but open through from the north to the The lifeboat station (right) is at base of the small pier on the shoreward side... - View image in PDF
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Friday, 21st May, 1920.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Major-General Sir COLERIDGE GROVE, K.C.B., who had been a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution...
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DURING A REGULAR inspection at Tenby in 1978 the RNLI's consulting engineers. Lewis and Duvivier. found that since their previous triennial upkeep and maintenance inspection many of the timber piles of the lifeboat house had deteriorated...
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Amble: Regardless of heavy rain, after naming Harold Salvesen, the new 37' 6" Rather class lifeboat, Mrs Salvesen was down on the shore to see her launch.
photograph by courtesy of The Northumberland... - View image in PDF
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