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Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1905
THE MOST HON. THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY, P.O., G.B., PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by the Eight Hon.
LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, K.T., P.O...
Category: Meetings
Some Ways of Raising Money
Miss Mackie-Campbell of Stonefield, Argyll, organised an equestrian day and designated the RNLI as a halfbeneficiary.
The event had to be postponed owing to atrocious weather, but in spite of this, when held soon afterwards...
Category: Donations
The Fundraisers
It Moosed be a mistake! No-one in the RNLI's membership department had an inkling that Mr A. Moose of the Station Hotel, Hurworth Place near Darlington was anything other than a normal, valued member - and the landlord of the Station...
Category: Articles
What's On
THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING LIFEBOATS
26 January–22 April
Poole Museum, Dorset
Calm Before the Storm: The Art of Photographing Lifeboats celebrates the past and present of the RNLI. Glass plate images of...
Category: Articles
Ros Caoin
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of April, 1958, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ros Caoin needed help at the mouth of the Kenmare River. At 6.30 the life-boat William and Harriot, on...
The Phoenix Was Inflatable By Joan Davies
UNDER THE NEVER-CEASING INFLUENCE of current and tidal stream, the coastline of our islands quietly moulds its contours to the pattern of the sea. Equally, our seaboard towns and villages reflect in their industries, population and way of...
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Books
• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
A 'heady' tradition was upheld in double measure at Aberdeen in May when the maiden catch of the Shetland seine-net boat Evening Star was auctioned.
Traditionally, the buyer of the first box offish from a maiden...
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The Gales and the Variations of the Barometer In the Months of October, November, and December, 1867
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations, in the reading,of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from October 26 to December 6, 1867, are shown in the annexed diagram, together with the directions of...
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