Fi/ey's boathouse is not as old as it looks - it was in fact completed in 1991- and was designed to fit a very restricted site on the promenade, as can be seen in the aerial photographs on page 27.. - View image in PDF
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From 1903 to 1931 the headquarters of the R.N.L.I, were at 22 Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2.
Teas and luncheons were conveniently obtainable next door..
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BEFORE the invasion of the Romans, York was one of the chief towns of the Brigantes, the most powerful of the British Tribes. By them it was known as Yure- Wic, and even at that time was a place of importance. The parent city is sup- posed...
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Selsey, Sussex.—8th September. A child had drifted out to sea on a rubber air-float, but fishermen found the child's body and the float.—Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 3.3 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen off a drifting air bed, 600 yards north of the station. At 3.5 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze...
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Arwed Emminghaus (below), a 26.6 m rescue cruiser with daughter boat from the Federal Republic of Germany. Other foreign lifeboats which will visit Plymouth are Sigurd Golje, a 78' patrolling steel lifeboat from Sweden; Patron Emil... - View image in PDF
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November Meeting.
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—On the llth August a party of six men and six women were out in a converted ship's boat. At about 11 P.M. they approached the harbour, but a strong N.E. wind had got up, making a...
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Safety at sea Having just received my summer copy of THE LIFEBOAT and read the reported speech of John Archer at University College, London, on 'Safety at Sea', I feel that I cannot let it pass without making a few comments on it.<...
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ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has established a new and additional Station at Aldeburgh, in order to strengthen the Life-boat service on that part of the coast, the local committee unanimously concurring, and a...
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