Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.
An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but...
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FOR the last four months the Life-boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have been busily endeavour- ing to maintain in 1902 the grand record of net receipts obtained by the Fund throughout the United Kingdom last year for the...
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THE " Abstracts of the Shipping Casual- ties which have occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year ended 30th June, 1896," have recently been issued by the Board of Trade, and are of the deepest interest,...
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Front Row. left to right: Mr. Julius (Secretory of the South Holland Society). Baron SwecrU, Mr. - View image in PDF
Colville, Mr. Lels, Mr. Lels, jun., Sir Woodbum Kirby.. - View image in PDF
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.—14th November.
A fishing boat grounded on the Hais- borough Sands but got off unaided.— Rewards, £36 12s..
Southend-on-Sea.—4th June, 1939.
A yacht was in distress off Foulness Island, but she was taken in tow by another vessel.—Rewards, £13 6s..
H.M. THE QUEEX has conferred a baronetcy of the United Kingdom on Alderman Cuthbert Lowell Ackroyd, Lord Mayor of London, who has been a member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution since 1950.
Other honours...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Angus, of Howth, Co. Dublin.
Appointed in January, 1900, he has been coxswain for nearly thirty-four years..
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28th July.
A trawler had stranded, but was found to have been abandoned.—Rewards, £4 12s. 6d..
Howth, Co. Dublin.—16th August.
A trawler caught fire and foundered, but her crew got ashore in their own boat.—Rewards, £14 18s. 6d..