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patron—ibis Most ©racious fl&ajestg tbe Chairman— COLONEL SIR FITZROY CLAYTON, K.C.V.O., V.P.

Deputy Chairman— SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.H.G...

Patron - Her most gracious majesty the Queen.

His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.

—His GRACE THE DUKE or NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L.

Chairman —THOMAS BARING, Esq., HP., F.B.S...

The oak of the RNLI grew from the acorn of Sir William Hillary's famous Appeal to the British Nation in 1823.

In the nature of nineteenth century writings the Appeal is too fulsome to reproduce in its entirety. Extracts...

Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them .  444. 

Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . .         £1,570 18 11

Number...

L O N D ON BOATSHOW Hilton III aSSDCHltintl With National Boat Shows In January 2003 the London Boat Show makes its final appearance at Earls Court, before gliding downriver lo the all-new ExCeL Exhibition Centre for 2004. So come along for...

Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.

•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...

As a consequence of the steady in- crease in the number of services by life- boats and the need to train crews in the use of new types of rescue craft and equipment it has been decided to increase from the 1st July, 1963, the number of the...

FOR rescuing two men and a small girl from a capsized dinghy off Black More Point, a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been awarded to Raymond Court and...