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Category: Services
The Equipment of a Life-Boat
THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Healthspan
ealthspan vitamins 'Let food be your medicine and medicine your food* Hippocrates, 400BC Good nutrition is the foundation of good health The vital contribution of nutrition to better health is hardly a new concept. It's one of the...
Category: Advertisement
Midland Bank Prepares for Pay-In of the Parker Pen Four Foot Long Tlfloo Cheque In the Shape of Rms Queen Elizabeth (/ to R) James Matter Director Parker Pen Co
Midland Bank prepares for pay-in of the Parker Pen four foot long tlflOO cheque in the shape of RMS Queen Elizabeth. (/. to r.) James Matter, director, Parker Pen Company, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, chairman, RNLI Fund Raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Desmond Carrington (Right) Digs Deep In the Drum for the Winning Ticket In the Rnli's Draw
Desmond Carrington (right) digs deep in the drum for the winning ticket in the RNLI's 52nd national lottery draw. With him are Anthony Oliver (centre) deputy head of fund raising and marketing and Peter Holness, corporate fund raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Scotland South Division Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at...
Category: Services
The First Steam Life-Boat
THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Fort Enterprise
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.13 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1951, the S.S. Fort Enterprise, of London, bound for America from Liverpool, wirelessed that she had a sick steward. She asked for him to be landed, saying that she would be...
The Ramsgate Life-Boat: A Night on the Goodwin Sands
BY THE REV. J. GILMORE, M.A.* CHAPTER 1.
THE GOODWIN SANDS.
" GOD have mercy upon the poor fellows at sea!" Household words, these, in English homes, however far inland they may be, and...
Category: Articles
Station Profile
Skegness is a holidaymaker's town with tourism being by far the main industry. The winter population of just 15,000 rises to around 170,000 during the summer bringing major traffic problems - which can badly delay the crew on their way...
Category: Articles