FIRST OF ALL, may I say how happy I am to have become associated with Shoreline as membership secretary. It has been a great pleasure to receive your welcoming letters and already, after only a few weeks, I feel that I am among old...
Category: Articles
In Brief TO MARK his 50th birthday, Vincent Magrath of Tarn worth asked that instead of presents his fellow Rotarians and friends give their money to the RNLI. Chairman of Tamworth ladies' guild, Marion Appleby- Matthews, was invited to...
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Time of 1929. Launching.
Jan. 1. 1.45p.m.
1. 2.40p.m.
„ 2. 10.0 a.m.
„ 2. 3.15p.m.
„ 5-6. 3.39p.m.
9. 11.25...
Category: Services
THURSDAY, 9th January, 1902.
Captain the Hon. JOHN M. YORKE, R.N., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported that His Majesty THE KING had...
Category: Committee
Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.
It is, as usual, a...
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Lifeboatmen swim through surf to rescue sailor Port Talbot - South West Division Two crew members of the Port Talbot lifeboat station have received letters of thanks from the chief of operations after an unusual rescue which led to a life...
On the closing of the Blackrock life-boat station the following awards were made : DANIEL SMITH, 1 year coxswain and 10J years second coxswain, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service, and a pension.
JAMES STANLEY, 1 year...
Category: Awards
Partners at the Show More than 10,000 people queued at the RNLI stand at the Southampton Boat Show in September 2004. They were able to see the technology used to save lives at sea on a Severn class lifeboat.
Two of the...
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1,072 Lives Rescued by the Twenty James Stevens Life-boats.
IN 1894 the Institution received under the will of the late Mr. James Stevens, of Birmingham, a sum of £50,000, to be spent on the construction of twenty...
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BY the death of Admiral Stuart Nicholson, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., on 10th September, at the age of seventy, the Institution has lost one of its most active and successful honorary secre- taries. At the end of 1920 he retired from the Navy after...
Category: Obituaries