IN the year 1857 the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, as will be remembered by its supporters, appealed to the medical profession in this country and, through foreign ambassadors, to the public medical authorities of several other countries,...
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CHAPTER I.
A WRECK OFT MARGATE.
THE night of Sunday, the 12th of February, in the present year, was what sailors call a very dirty night. Heavy masses of clouds skirted the horizon as the sun get; and,...
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A corner of the exhibition at the Post Office Communications Centre, London, organised by Mr Ian Carr, a keen supporter of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund.
He has started a branch.
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Comedian Frankie Howerd looks on in amazement at Braunton RNLI team competing in a Jubilee pond bailing competition in Barnstaple staged by Barnstaple Round Table. Some 14 sponsored teams took part. Braunton bailed 25 gallons in six hours... - View image in PDF
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Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
CAPTAIN CREWE READ, R.N., Inspecting Commander of the Swansea Coast-guard Division, has forwarded to the Institution the following account of the resuscitation of a sailor apparently dead from drowning :—" At a late hour in the evening...
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Inshore lifeboat dedications . . . Glyn Williams, DOS (Wales), extreme right, at the service of dedication, attended by about 2,000 people, of a new Atlantic 21, Blue Peter II, at Beaumaris on Sunday, August 29, 1976. Standing with him are... - View image in PDF
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SEAHAM, DURHAM.—Towards midnight on the 31st Deo., 1898, signals of distress at sea were observed off this place, and when the New Year broke, the Life-boat SJcynner was on her way to render help to the vessel which had displayed them. The...
Girvan, and Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.48 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Sir James, of Cardiff, was drifting ashore between Heads of Ayr and Turnberry...
SIR,—When I was in St. Paul's Cathe- dral a few months since, I was moved afresh at the sight of the magnificent monuments to our great naval and mili- tary heroes, particularly those of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington; and, as I...
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