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Lifeboat station histories Holy Island Lifeboats by Brian Chandler published by the author at £3.50 For such a small island, only a few hundred yards off the coast of Northumberland, Holy Island has a packed and fascinating history -...
Category: Articles
Who rules the waves?
Over 70% of our planet’s surface is water but who is in charge of traffic on this vast highway and how has maritime law evolved?
This year sees the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the...
Category: Articles
For More Than 40 Years Two Generations of Two Families
For more than 40 years two generations of two families have been raising funds for the RNL1 at the Cramond Inn on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. The two families, the Gumleys (owners of the inn) and the Proudfoots (the managers),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bose
It seems small.
Until you turn it on.
The Rose® Acoustic Wave® music system. The biggest thing about it is the sound.
It measures just 10.5"H x 18"Wx 6.5"D and...
Category: Advertisement
The Organisers of the Moelex 80 Business and Home Exhibition Staged at the University of Essex for Five Days Last Spring Invited Colchester Branch to Set Up a Souvenir Stand at the Event Here
The organisers of the Moelex 80 Business and Home Exhibition staged at the University of Essex for five days last spring, invited Colchester branch to set up a souvenir stand at the event. Here, Mrs Ruth Clarke, the honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
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Aberdovey, Merionethshire. At 2.50 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that four bathers had been swept off the beach near Borth. At 2.55 the IRB launched in a moderate to fresh south-easterly breeze and...
After Each of His Shows at the Playhouse Theatre Bournemouth Last Summer Max Bygraves Went Into the Foyer to Autograph His Lp Record Albums All Profits Were Di
After each of his shows at the Playhouse Theatre, Bournemouth, last summer. Max Bygraves went into the foyer to autograph his LP record albums. All profits were divided between four charities and Mr Bygraves presented the first cheques, for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 4th June, 1908.
Colonel FITZ-ROY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Thirty-Fifth Civil Service Life-Boat
ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...
Category: Inaugurations
Mr John G Francis of Petts Wood Orpington Kent Was at RNLI Headquarters London on 15Th May 1969 Presented With a Lifeboatman Statuette for His Voluntary Publ
Mr. John G. Francis, of Petts Wood, Orpington, Kent, was at R.N.L.I. Headquarters, London, on 15th May, 1969, presented with a lifeboatman statuette for his voluntary public relations work for the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society which he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs