IN one post the Institution received gifts of a pair of sea-boot stockings, a bag of corks, a jig-saw puzzle and a cheque for £1,000..
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Mrs Sarah Hamley, honorary treasurer of the Back of The Wight branch since 1991. Sarah has been a member of the branch since 1989..
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(Right) Borth: ILB Crew Member Anna Hubbard out on exercise with Crew Member leuan Griffiths and Helmsman Ronnie Davies.. - View image in PDF
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DURING September and October the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers, in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : —• To THOMAS E. PURDY, Esq., Honorary...
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—The s.s. Malta, of Glasgow, 2,017 tons, with passengers and a general cargo from Liverpool for Italy, went ashore at Wheal Castle, about four miles from Senaea, during a dense fog on the evening of the 15th October. Intelligence of the...
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 12.16 early on the morning of the llth of February, 1955, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Friargate, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had run on the rocks at Flam- borough Head...
On Prince of Wales's Day in Greater London, in 1923.. - View image in PDF
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RAMSGATE.—In answer to signal guns, the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan at 2.15 A.M. on the 14th of March, during a fresh N.E. wind. After cruising about for some time without finding any vessel in...
with the motor life-boal Henry Frederick Swan, on her trolley at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF
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FOR the eighth year running the Institution received at Christmas, from a lady in Hampstead, a gift of all the halfpennies she has collected during the year. Her collection for 1938 was 552. This was 182 more than in...
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