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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
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The S.S. Ben Rein
On the 25th October the s.s. Ben Rein, of Ramsey, sheltering in Caldey Roads while on passage from Penarth to Milford, began to drag her anchors and signalled for help. A strong S.W. breeze was blow- ing, with a heavy sea, and the weather...
Mizpah
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 5.15 in the evening, on the 81 st of January, 1951, a message from the village of Bayble came through the Garrabost Post Office that a fishing boat was in difficulties off Bayble Head. Another fishing boat...
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
FOR THE FIRST TIME the RNLI has awarded a gallantry medal for a rescue from an oil rig. The rig involved, Orion, was on tow from Rotterdam to Brazil when she went aground on the Guernsey coast. The rescue operation was in some respects of a...
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DECEMBER 14TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. Rockets had been seen, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £21 3s. 6d.
His Majesty King George VI
BY the death on the 6th of February, of His Majesty King George VI, the Life-boat Service lost not only a beloved Sovereign but its own Patron.
He had carried on the tradition of over a century and a quarter that the...
Category: Obituaries
Fail Safe Part Ii: Upright Again - and Then What? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
IN THE FIRST PART of this article, published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, we recalled the righting after capsize on service of four of the Institution's lifeboats and looked at the designer's work which had made possible the...
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(Above) Round Tablers and Their Families Aboard Thenewhaven Hfeboatlouis Marchesi of Round Table Which Their President Roderick Burn Handed Over to Captain
(above) Round Tablers and their families aboard theNewhaven HfeboatLouis Marchesi of Round Table which their President, Roderick Burn, handed over to Captain J. B.
Leworthy, a member of the Committee of Management, at the... - View image in PDF
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Raymond Cory, a Member of the Committee of Management, on Behalf of Branches and Guilds In the Welsh District, Presented a Royal Worcester Commemorative Va
Raymond Cory, a member of the Committee of Management, on behalf of branches and guilds in the Welsh District, presented a Royal Worcester commemorative vase to Miss T. H. Ashe, retiring district organising secretary, and a commemorative... - View image in PDF
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