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Sennen Cove Mersey class The Four Boys Eighteen years on from the visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent to name the previous Sennen Cove lifeboat, history was repeated on Wednesday 22 April as the town, bedecked in flags and sunshine,...
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Dear Editor Here’s my entry for the RNLI/Barclays Paddington Bear photo competition, taken on our holiday in the Canadian Rockies.
Hope I’m not too late. [Unfortunately you were, Gary! Ed.] All the best Gary Stanbury... - View image in PDF
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Jersey centenary While visiting Jersey on Friday June 1, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the RNLI, attended a service of thanksgiving and blessing for St Helier lifeboat station and presented a vellum to mark the...
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Those who give talks on the life-boat service may like to know that standard notes for speakers, which are revised at regular intervals to ensure that they include information about new developments, are available on request to the Head...
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Required to be used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the 19th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873, if a vessel requires the services of a Pilot.
"In the Day-time.—The...
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THE resolution of the House of Commons so unanimously passed last Session at the instance of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, on the motion of its Chairman, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., relative to the establishment of a...
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ON Life-boat Day in London a woman asked a collector in oilskins if he were not very tired. He said that he had started collecting at 7.30. It was then 11.30. She at once asked if she should bring him a cup of tea..
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The Swanage branch of the R.N.L.I. has been presented with a large coloured print of David Cobb's painting of the scene off Anvil Point on 22nd October, 1966, when a Norwegian freighter, with survivors from a yacht, met the Swanage...
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