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Storm Force Club Towards the end of last year, my branch started a Storm Force Club. This is not a group sharing corporate membership, but a club for youngsters who already have or who may be interested in having their own individual Storm...
Category: Correspondence
Feature: Knowledge Is Power
Lack of knowledge is thought to be the root cause of most deaths in UK and Irish waters, and the RNLI'sSea Safety mission is to counter this. GarethWeekes reportsA relatively new strand of the RNLI's work, Sea Safety was a response...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Southwold and Dunwich ; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; Great Yarmouth and Gorlcston ; Montrose.
DURING the past summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of five Motor Life-boats have taken place. The first of these, the inauguration of...
Category: Inaugurations
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Valentia
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1961, one of the yachts competing in a regatta capsized. The two people on board, a man and a woman, clung to the sub- merged boat. A near gale was blowing from the south-west...
The Annual Meeting
THE hundred and fifteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 26th April. Over 2,500 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
Category: Meetings
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1920
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Category: Services
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 15th May, 1938, an outboard motor boat capsized about two hundred yards off shore and four and a half miles west of Clacton. A slight S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 15 pride in the past: inspiration for the future THE 1984 ANNUAL MEETINGS of the RNLI at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15, will long be remembered by all who attended. The afternoon presentation of...
Category: Meetings
Alice
Several small yachts visited Spurn on the 9th July. After they had set out again a heavy squall sprang up and one of the yachts—the Alice, of Grimsby— drifted aground on the Trinity Sand.
A strong, squally breeze was...