On May 10 HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, visited lifeboat stations in Orkney. At Kirkwall he presented to Captain William Sinclair, coxswain of the lifeboat, the bronze medal awarded to him for the service on January 22... - View image in PDF
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Once an RNLI supporter, always a RNLI supporter! When Mrs J. B. Wilson, who had worked within the ranks of Colwyn Bay branch since 1965, settled with her family in Hong Kong she asked HQ if she could start a branch there. With the dedicated...
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Lifeboat! by Edward Wake-Walker, Heather Deane and Georgette Purches, published by Ian Allen at £5.95 ISBN 0-7110-1835-9 As the authors of this volume are the RNLI's public relations officer, his deputy and a recently retired...
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Thursday, 15th November, 1923.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :—• £ a. d.
ANONYMOUS 50 - - MK. FREDERICK...
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Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
October Meeting.
EOSSLARE HARBOUR, Co. WEXFORD.
—On 20th September the Royal Firth, of...
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At 6.45 P.M.
on the 18th August information was received by telegram from the Light- keeper at Point of Ayr Light-house to the effect that a small yacht was in difficulties close by, flying signals of distress. The...
Exhausted yachtsmen BRONZE MEDAL THE YACHT Sea Victor, built in Germany during the 1930s, had sailed from Exmouth on the morning of Friday May 2, 1986, on passage to Guernsey. By the evening of the following day after a rough crossing the...
Southampton Boat Show, September 13 to 18, got away to a good start on the first day with the presentation by Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of three cheques: £500 from Cobramold Ltd, to mark the building of the 2,000th Leisure class... - View image in PDF
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THURSDAY, 1st October, 1885.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence and "Wreck and...
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IN the last few months money has been raised for the Institution in a number of new and striking ways. A particularly welcome gift was one of £155 which came from Miss Erica Marx, of the Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, Kent. This...
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