A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Cere- mony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter...
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THAT great friendly society, the Ancient Order of Foresters, has for a long time been one of the most gener- ous supporters of the Institution.
Foresters' orders are of great anti- quity and their origin cannot now be...
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THE fourth International Conference on the Safety of Life at Sea was held at Church House, Westminster, from the 17th of May to the 17th of June, 1960. The three earlier conferences had been held in 1913, 1929 and...
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BANFF, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Banff, .on the north-east coast of Scotland, in connec- tion with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT' INSTITUTION.
A self-righting boat on' the...
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April Meeting.
Selsey, Sussex.—On the 8th April two men in a fishing-boat rescued the crew of two of another fishing-boat which had capsized—Rewards £2; and 2s. 6d. for fuel used. (For full account see page...
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THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...
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IN spite of the diatribes of pacificists against war as a relic of barbarism and the embodiment of all evil, the present stupendous struggle has once again proved that, notwithstanding the horrors, t h e misery and the grief which war brings...
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DURING March, life-boats went out on service 45 times and rescued 10 lives.
A LISTING TANKER New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S...
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THE almost total disappearance of the old-fashioned small sailing coaster, the place of which baa been taken by steamers, coupled with the vastly improved con- ditions under which the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland are lighted, has...
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A Topping idea...
It is not often that one sees the director of the RNLI wearing a hard-hat, laying concrete, sporting a sprig of yew tree and then supping a glass of ale - especially when perched on the top of a...
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