The Dublin lifeboat spring sale of work was held in the Royal Dublin Society on Friday March 9. With over 300 voluntary workers involved it is the single largest fund-raising event in Ireland for the lifeboat service. Mrs...
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Pictured are Eric Winter (kilted) pouring a glass of malt for Ray Taylor.. - View image in PDF
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or THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
(IV fifura refer to the numbm of the Life-boati detailed on paget 616 627.) A Friend, per Pembroke Stevens, E«q., K.C , 26 i.
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ESTABLISHED by Sir William Hillary in 1824 when the seas around the British Isles were crowded with small sailing vessels, fishing and carrying cargoes, the R.N.L.I. was primarily concerned with saving lives from shipwreck. One of the...
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The same life-boat saved the crew of 15 men of the S. S. Harmonia, of Hamburgh, which became a total wreck on a sand bank near Brancaster.
Monkey business City of Derby branch is rather short of collectors, so was glad to welcome this new recruit at Grangecroft Garden Centre - where he helped to raise £360.
Any supporters who can help in the Derby area,...
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Below: The Royal British Legion Jubilee, as she left the Thames after the ceremony, passing the Houses of Parliament.. - View image in PDF
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Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint: double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
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Selsey, Sussex.—27th June. The s.s.
Holstein, of Bremen, and the s.s. Freya, of Copenhagen, had collided. The Freya needed help but she was towed to Southampton by a tug.—Rewards, £9 12s. 6d..