THE second of three life-boats which are a gift to the British Life-boat Service from the people of Southern Africa, was stationed at Dover in 1949. The first, named the Field- Marshal and Mrs. Smuts, went to Beaumaris, Anglesey, in 1945....
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It is not only to our Life-boat workers, that we are indebted for help in raising funds. Numbers of the men and women who take part in the sterner side of Life-boat work on the coast have given us generous help on the financial side as well....
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THE Central Appeals Committee, whose chairman is Mr. R. N. Crumbie, 126a High Street, Orpington, Kent, continues to develop new fund raising measures on behalf of the R.N.L.I.
The national sponsored swim, arranged by the...
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Award* to Honorary Workers.
SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat was published, the following presenta- tions/have been made to Honorary, Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in recognition of their*...
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FOR the second year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, | gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to about 160 children living in the neighbourhood of the Storeyard. It was...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 280 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 281 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 240 Life-boat Stations...
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At 1.30 A.M. on the morning of the 14th January, the police informed the Coastguard that the motor yawl Falcon, of Broughty Ferry, was adrift somewhere in the Tay with fifteen men on board. She had left Tayport at 10 P.M. the previous...
A GREAT loss has, within the last few weeks, fallen on the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the Life-boat Cause has been deprived of a strong supporter and constant friend by the death of ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth Duke of...
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