THE Institution is again issuing in the autumn a life-boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...
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(Right) Foreign coin has been pouring into Poole HQfrom collecting points generously set up last year by Lipton's at their 850 stores in England and Wales. (1. to r.) Numismatists John Phillimore and Colin Day with Cdr Ted Pritchard,... - View image in PDF
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Aberystwyth, and New Quay, Cardigan- shire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the Outward Bound Sea School's ketch Golden Valley left Aberystwyth for New Quay, towing the fifty-feet fishing boat Camelia, of New Quay. At...
A MEMORIAL service, conducted by the Rev. Norman Ncsbit Faid, assisted by Provost J. K. Moir, was held in St. John's Methodist Church, Arbroath, on the 20th of February, 1955, to com- memorate the six members of the crew of the Arbroath...
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Above - Andrew Freemantle. new RA/i./ Director as of January 1999.. - View image in PDF
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Walmer, Kent. At approximately 6.53 p.m. on 7th July, 1965, life-boatmen at the boathouse saw an overturned dinghy with her crew of two in the water a mile seawards off Deal pier. The IRB launched immediately, in a light northwesterly breeze...
Plymouth, Devon. At 1.53 early on the morning of the 5th December. 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a ship had drifted danger- ously close to the rocks near the Mount Batten look-out. The assembly signal was made...
He’s engineered glorious victories for the best drivers in the world – and now Ross Brawn’s formula for success is helping the RNLI build a new lifeboat.
Ross Brawn is no stranger to spending hours watching teams pit their...
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RHYL, NORTH WALKS. — At about 2 A.M.
on the 18th November, the Coastguard on duty observed a vessel in a dangerous position opposite Rhyl, tat making no signals of distress. At about 3 o'clock the vessel appeared to be...
by Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.
Deputy Chairman of the Institution.
This is the second part of Commander Szoann's article. In this issue he deals with his subsequent visit to...
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