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St Thomas Packet, of Blyth
RAMSGATE, NORTH DEAL, AND KINGS- DOWNE.—On one other occasion since then have the Bradford Life-boat and Vulcan 1 steamer done good service; this time in ( conjunction with the North Deal Life-boat ! Van Kook and the Kingsdowne Life-boat !...
The Town of Ipswich Lifeboat
THE town of Ipswich has come forward in a novel and spirited manner in support of the life-boat cause. Although not actually on the coast, it has occurred to benevolent gentlemen resident at Ipswich, that inland towns might especially be...
Category: Articles
Groves & Guttridge Ltd
GROVES AND QUTTRIDGE LTD.
EAST AND WEST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Wood and Steel Boat Building, Refitting and Storage Contractors to: R.N.L.I., Trinity House, Ministry of Defence and Private Customers Telephone: Cowes...
Category: Advertisement
Mrs Mavis Spears,
Mrs Mavis Spears, Islay station honorary secretary from 1992 until her death.
Mrs Spears was honorary secretary of Isle of Islay ladies lifeboat guild from 1971 and was appointed station honorary secretary following her...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling
BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...
Category: Obituaries
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent
Naming the Weston-super-Mare motor life-boat. With the Duke (left to right) are Mr. E. J.
McKaig, honorary secretary of the station, the Marquess of Bath, and the chief inspector of life-boats.
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Category: Photographs
Members of Jersey Lifeboat Guild
Members of Jersey Lifeboat Guild, pictured with the St.
Catherine's C class lifeboat. The ladies of the Jersey guild have been running a souvenir stall at the station throughout the summer and were photographed by a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some of the 100 Participants of Penwortham Lancashire
Some of the 100 participants of Penwortham, Lancashire, branch's sponsored swim are checked in by Mrs Openshaw and Mrs M. P.
Dewhurst, branch honorary secretary. This, like so many sponsored swims, was very successful... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
A LORRY decorated by the chairman and secretary of the Luton branch, Lieut-Commander Bernard McDonald, R.N.V.R., and Commander W. R. S.
Smith, R.N.V.R., with equipment supplied by the Institution's depot won the first...
Category: Donations
Launceston, of Sheilds, and Artic Hero, of Goole
During very severe weather on the llth February the Life-boat Huddersfield went off, in reply to signals from the Hasborough light- ship, and brought ashore 15 men who had formed part of the crews of the barques Launceston, of Shields, and...