A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...
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THIS article appeared in The Field on 8th April and is reproduced by permission of The Field'?, editor. We consider it a most helpful, informative and balanced article, although the comment about the attitude of crews towards...
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CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment at this new and rising watering-place on the coast of Essex— the local residents being very desirous to AND NEW LIFE-BOATS.
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Thursday, 23rd August, 1934.
Paid £18,054 10s. 5d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, includ- ing rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
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IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...
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Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...
AFTER the valuable work done by Lukin in 1807, in initiating the Norfolk and Suffolk type of Life-boat, there appears to have been a considerable period before any new type found a place on the coast. No doubt small variations from the...
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A beautifully written letter from Susan Crook brought the news that the children oj Beach Road Country Primary School, Litherland, Liverpool, seen here with Brian Stevenson, ADOS(NW). had beaten the target they had set themselves to reach by... - View image in PDF
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When sisters Emily and Lydia visited Newborough Beach in north Wales on a blustery February day, they had no idea they’d end their trip on Trearddur Bay’s lifeboat
Getting cut off by the tide is an incredibly easy mistake...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March 1880, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
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