AFFINITY WITH 5 * The Royal Bank of Scotland pic The Royal Bank »* Royal National Lifeboat v. Institution DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly...
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ON the 25th of October last The Times published for the first time a remarkable alteration in its usual daily chart of the barometer, and considering the import- ance of the subject, we append its intro- ductory remarks, and also an exact...
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LII. PLYMOUTH.—The Clemency, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.
ALTHOUGH the history of Plymouth is intimately connected with the exploits of the renowned and adventurous sailors of the Elizabethan era, it does not seem...
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LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...
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Following receipt of a cheque made out to theR.N.L.I.
for £100 from Southern Television Ltd., Commander P. Thornycroft, of T.T. Boat Designs Ltd., Bernbridge, I.o.W., wrote: 'I feel this needs some small...
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At the South East District Conference George A. Hodgkins (r.), vice-president ofReigate and Redhill branch, presented a cheque for £10,000 to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, KCB, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, watched by the... - View image in PDF
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AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the Offices of the Society, John Street, Adelphi, on Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1854,, CAPTAIN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, VICE...
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Members of the Brierley Hill and Kingswinford branch had highflying ideas for fund raising, for John Stoker, a branch committee member, persuaded some of his friends to make a sponsored parachute jump.
When all the jumpers... - View image in PDF
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THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, took part for the first time in naming ceremonies of life-boats when she Avent on March 8th to Bridlington and on March 10th to Tynemouth and named their new life-boats, the Tittle Morrison,...
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MCH. 20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.34 P.M. the R.N. Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse Light-vessels. The sea was rough, with a strong squally W.N.W. breeze....