Lord Inchcape, chairman of the City of London appeal, escorts the Lord Mayor of London, Col Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe, GBE ID, up the beautiful staircase of the Fishmongers' Hall to the banquetting hall. With them (centre front) is John... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 27TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. As a strong north-west wind had suddenly sprung up, raising a rough sea, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 12.20 in the afternoon to escort the fishing cobles to harbour.
Some of...
Launching The Life-Boat at The Scaw. - View image in PDF
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The Tunnel Stern of the New Design. - View image in PDF
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The 'Boat Crew' Cross The Finish Line. - View image in PDF
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She’s the first woman to row the ‘big three’ solo, but environmentalist Roz Savage has another mission that needs the help of millions
At 34, Roz Savage had what she calls a midlife crisis....
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Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on May 23rd. The amount raised was £8,132, an increase of £1,734 on 1938 and the largest sum for over twenty years.
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On the night of the 31st March, during a gale of wind from the N.W., the Princess of Wales life-boat went off in reply to a signal from the Austrian schooner Nicolo, which had stranded near Penial, Anglesea, to the assistance of some boatmen...
THE YEAR 1974 began in an atmosphere of gloom and anxiety with industry limited to a three-day week and restrictions on lighting recalling wartime blackouts.
The first month of the year was also one in which there were...
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OCTOBER 21ST. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. At about 11 A.M. the harbour master was informed by telephone that a ship’s boat, the Dronze, of Howth, had left Howth at 9 P.M. the previous evening to go to Sutton, four miles...