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The Help of An Octopus

Date: September 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 319

THE honorary secretary of the Exmouth station, who raises money for the branch by selling flowers at the boathouse, has found another and unexpected source of revenue. While fishing off Budleigh Salterton in July he caught an octopus. He...

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The S.S. Lesrix

Date: March 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 395

Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.13 on the morning of the 4th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen drifting fourteen miles off Portland Bill and that a Shackleton aircraft was circling the...

Two Magnificent Efforts By Children In Ipswich Have Raised Enough Money to Buy 112 Sets of Ear Defenders for Lifeboat Crews the Top Three Classes Ofwhitehouse Infa

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

Two magnificent efforts by children in Ipswich have raised enough money to buy 112 sets of ear defenders for lifeboat crews. The top three classes ofWhitehouse Infants School hoped to raised £100 with a sponsored spell; they actually... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 6. Mr. G. L. Thomson, J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Stromness Branch

Date: November 1922

Volume: 24

Issue: 277

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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Across the Revetment of the Mersey

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

THERE was a full southerly gale blowing off-New Brighton last September 15th, with frequent squalls of rain, and the sea was very rough. Soon after half- past one in the afternoon the coastguard noticed a three-masted schooner at anchor in...

Category: Services

The National Life-Boat Institution of Japan

Date: August 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 201

THIS enterprising and interesting Insti- tution was established in 1889, its object being "the saving of life and property appertaining to ships in distress off the coasts of Japan." Its affairs are successfully managed and worked...

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A Sponsored Silence Organised By Skegness Ladies' Guild Was Undertaken By 72 Local Children and Raised £534 the First Three Prize Winners Michelle Hilton Emma

Date: Summer 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 465

A sponsored silence, organised by Skegness ladies' guild, was undertaken by 72 local children and raised £534. The first three prize winners, Michelle Hilton, Emma Ruston and Wendy Balderson, between them raised £68. They were... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Penlee: the Loss of Solomon Browne and Her Crew December 19 1981

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1,400 ton coaster Union Star, registered in...

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The Record of 1925

Date: March 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 286

Terrible Winter Storms.

THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...

Category: Annual Reports

The Life-Boat House

Date: May 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 96

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

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