The Duchess of York On Board The Montrose Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 20TH and 21ST. - ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN NORTH PIER LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS, AND ABERDEEN TORRY LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS. At 7.30 in the evening the steam trawler Spurs, of Grimsby, on her way to the fishing grounds, but trying to get into...
Members of the crew of the new Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 44' Waveney lifeboat, named Eric Seal in memory of the late Sir Eric Seal, KBE, CB, a former vice-president of the RNLI and chairman of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Letters of Gratitude.
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...
Category: Services
Her Grace Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk.
patron of Linlehampton branch, presented a silver statuette to Mr R. J. C. Richards, a former treasurer of the branch, during Littlehampton's lifeboat ball last autumn. With them... - View image in PDF
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The Duke of Kent described the decision to establish the head office in Poole as bold, and also wise; he was pleased to see the familiar stone lifeboatman still at the door, now gazing out to sea. A service of dedication was conducted by The... - View image in PDF
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Mr. Douglas Newall, a water bailiff employed by the Avon and Dorset River Board, and Major Oliver Kite, a well-known fisherman, tied some specimen dry flies as used on the chalk streams of southern England. The case of flies was auctioned at...
Category: Donations
A splendid ten foot model of the RNLI Medina lifeboat Mountbatten of Burma is named by Councillor Mrs Frances Humpherson, president of Newton Abbot branch. Lt John Gorrill, chairman of the branch who once served aboard HMS Kelly under Earl... - View image in PDF
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THE Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society completed its first hundred years of work in February, 1939. The Institu- tion sent its cordial congratulations to the Society on its magnificent record of 897,801...
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The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be... - View image in PDF
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