Preparations are made well in advance: Mrs Brenila Clark (I. foreground) and some of her helpers hold a Garden Shop planning conference..
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Above: The aneroid barometer that featured in the August 1882 issue of The Life-Boat Journal. - View image in PDF
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A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD boy, Arnold Togneri, has been awarded an inscribed wristwatch for the rescue of a girl off Dunbar, East Lothian, on the afternoon of nth April, 1965.
Arnold Togneri and two other boys, John and James...
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At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 17th day of March, 1863, The Eight Honourable LORD LOVAINE, M.P., P.O., in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee was...
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Earl Moiintbatten hud strong connections with HMS Mercury, the communications school, in his former role as senior communications officer of the Royal Navy. Here Captain John Stevens II.), chairman of Petersfield branch, receives a cheque... - View image in PDF
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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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At 2.25 p.m. on 5th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the private wireless transmitting station Ocean 7 (Radio 270), had an injured man on board, and asked if the life-boat could take him off as he was hi...
Raisers Car booty! Hundreds of people made money from filling their car boots with unwanted items and selling them at the sale organised by Henley branch, but the real winner was the Institution which received a staggering...
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Weston - super - Mare, Somerset. —• At 4.20 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1918, the police reported a sailing boat in difficulties in the bay. She had two boys on board. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The boat...
Wolverhampton branch members did a roaring trade in top hats (and could have sold a great many more) at their third annual nearly new shop last autumn. In a fortnight £2,070 was added to branch funds. (I. to r.) Joan Timmins, Greta... - View image in PDF
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