UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...
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WHEN a shrieking, thund'rous tempest Breaks the stillness of the night, And a ship in seething waters Wages impotential fight; As the life-croft to the rescue, Gallant oarsmen speed afloat— Do we realise the perils Of the men who man the...
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The Nicholsons and the donors' families celebrate the first Tamar naming. - View image in PDF
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By permission of-the Penny Illustrated Paper.
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THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
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THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...
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KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—On the morning of the 18th September, signals of distress were fired by a vessel which proved to be the steamer Dolphin, of London, bound from London to Havre, with a general cargo and passengers, which had been in...
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The Scene of the Wreck Next Morning. - View image in PDF
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The crew of the Eastbourne lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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The Crew Of The Portrush Lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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