DECEMBER 24TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About 1.45 in the afternoon information was received through the signal station that landing craft (G)110 had been in collision and was sinking near the gate vessel. The weather was foggy, with a light...
OWING to the fact that the present Head- quarters at Life-boat House, Charing Cross Road, have for some years been too small for the staff required to deal with the constant expansion of the Institution's activities, the Committee of...
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The two 'horrors' pictured above were snapped at the Lawford Fun Day on 13 June, which was flag dayforthe Mistley and Manningtree Branch in Essex.
During the branch's lifeboat week, £1,458.08 was collected,... - View image in PDF
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Shortly before 10 o'clock in the evening of 18th April last, just as the s.s. Clanwood, of Sunderland, was leaving Hartlepool for Ghent, with a cargo of coal, a gas explosion occurred on board.
The weather was fine with...
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AUGUST 17TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 4.45 P.M. the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should be launched, as a body had been seen floating in the Cudd Channel.
A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, but the see was...
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Bunbeg, Co. Donegal.—At about 5 P.M. on the 14th April Thomas Boyle, of Bunbeg, who had come in from Innishinney Island...
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Torbay Motor Life-boat to be Named after Him.
AT their meeting on 17th September the Committee of Management resolved to " mark their high appreciation of Sir George Shee, as Secretary of the Institu- tion for...
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THE following Eegulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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Greater London.
Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N....
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