THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeremiah O'Connell, of Valentia, Co. Kerry,He has been coxswain since 1946..
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Every Christmas and Easter for ten years Southport Mummers Group (with St George, the King of Egypt, Beelzebub and all the others) has toured the hostelries of South Lancashire with its ancient traditional plays to collect money for the... - View image in PDF
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THE Stromness Motor Life-boat has already shown on more than one occasion what a Motor Life-boat can do in the way of long-distance services. One of these was described in The Life-Boat for February this year. On that occasion she travelled...
The Annual General Meeting The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991, at the usual venue on the South Bank in London, with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the...
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BEEN out in the Life-boat often ? Ay, ay, sir, oft enough.
When it's rougher than this? Lor" bless you! this ain't what we calls rough; It's when there's a gale a-blowin', and the waves run in and...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Hubert Ernest Petit, who has been coxswain of the St. Peter Port, Guernsey, life- boat since 1948. The photograph, which was taken by Mr. Carel Toms, shows the coxswain at the wheel dur- ing the voyage of...
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ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 284 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 289 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 285 Life-boat Stations...
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