Man overboard! This is the cry no seagoer wants to hear but how much worse would it be to know that, as you slipped and fell into the water, no one knew you had gone? The lone fisherman or yachtsman has always been in grave danger if they...
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Holyhead, Skegness, Fleetwood, St. Ives, and Anstruther.
THE inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat stationed at Holyhead (Anglesey), took place on 13th June, in the presence of some 2,000 people.
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to August 31st, 1953 ....
78,333 The Thirty-first of January: A Day of...
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Greater London.
BARNET.—Mrs. G. T. Moore appointed joint honorary secretary.
CLAPHAM. — " Bring - and - buy " sale.
Three whist drives.
HORNSEY.—Whist...
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South West Division French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had...
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IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...
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As the means provided in other countries for saving lives from shipwreck cannot fail to be interesting to a large number of our readers, we have much satisfaction in placing before them the following account of the Society which has under-...
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WBXFOBD AND BOSSLAEE BBANCH. diocese The tm£ and c*stle were LXIH. WEXFOED No. 1.—The Ethel Eveleen, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, 12 oars.
LXIV. Ditto No. 2.—The Civil Service No. 1,34 feet by...
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Thursday, 20th April, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported that His Grace the Duke of Portland, K.G., had agreed to become acting president of the Institution during the absence in...
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Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings reaches the final leg of his epic voyage - travelling from Aith, in the Shetland Islands, to Eyemouth on the Scottish mainland.It is appropriate that we commence the final leg...
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