RIDLEY HOUSE, Felixstowe College, whose interest in the Life-boat Service is so great that it has formed a Ladies' Life-boat Guild within the House, has staged two competitions for the benefit of the Service. One is a general know- ledge...
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For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Lifeboat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to...
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The lue-boat calendar for 1942 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting ot life-boats of the Institution helping to bring off men of the B.E.F. from the beaches of Dunkirk. The calendar costs a l/-...
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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE— 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1955. 1954 £ 216,657 385 32,751 9,758 354 37,173 11,126 EXPENDITURE LIFE-BOATS :— New Life- boats for the following Stations : On account — Berwick - on - Tweed, Campbeltown, ...
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Runs for fun As part of their lifeboat day '85 Tighnabruaich and District guild organised a raft race fun run, when competitors had to wear fancy dress. The first prize was given to staff from the Royal Hotel who entered the race as...
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Aberdovey, Gwynedd March 7, 17, April 17 (twice) and May 28 Abersoch, Gwynedd March 24, April 5, 19 and 28 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan April 15 (twice), 22 (twice), May 5, 6 and 29 Bangor, Co. Down April 27, May 14 and 20 Barmouth,...
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On the 14th Nov. the Austrian brig, Tregiste, 333 tons, of Trieste, anchored for shelter, during a terrific gale from the east, under Lambay Island, near Dublin.
On the 15th she had dragged her anchors nearly half way...
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
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INVEST IN A 'KING FALCON' CRUISER—OSBORNE OBVIOUSLY Order Direct—Designer—Builder—Moulder and save more than V.A.T.—No Agency Discounts Our Own Engineering & Electrical Installations —No Sub Contractors— 33ft.—Twin Diesels Sleep...
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ONE SUNDAY in July I had the great pleasure of meeting lifeboatmen from Blyth, the station on the north east coast of England for which the Rother lifeboat being funded by the Shoreline appeal is destined. Motor Mechanic Colin Cutherbertson,...
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