Lifeboats stand-by stranded cargo vessel in severe weatherThe chairman of the RNLI has written a letter of thanks to the coxswains and crews of the Padstow and St Ives lifeboats following a very difficult operation in storm-force winds.At...
Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893, "As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is 'That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.'...
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The car boot sale organised by Henley-on- Thames branch last autumn in full swing: trade in garden tools, nearlv new clothes, toys, bric-a-brac and all manner of goods was brisk. An original, popular and profitable enterprise which resulted... - View image in PDF
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Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the experimental intermediate lifeboat RNLI Medina 35, on early trials. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Ambrose Greenway. - View image in PDF
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XXVII.—DUNDALK.
Stoctport Sunday School, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
THIS Life-boat Station is on a low flat shore, three miles south of Soldiers' Point, the southern side of the...
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Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...
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— About 4 A..M. on the 26th Jan., at which time it was blowing a gale from S.E., a pilot cutter discovered the wreck of the three-masted schooner No. 4, of j Arundel, on the Abertay Sands ; she there- \ upon bore up to communicate with the j...
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—A schooner, The Saint, of Euncorn, bound from France for Portmadoc with hay, straw, and ballast, having been dismasted off The Smalls in a N.W. gale on the 5th January, was taken in tow by a large steamer; but on the...
The boats of the ROYAL 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, tinder the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
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The following article has been written for The Lifeboat by an officer in the Salvation Army, while, the note attached to it gives some general particulars about the Norwegian Life-boat Service, which we haw received from its...
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