THE following Circular*, which has been issued by the Board of Trade to Life-boat Committees throughout the United Kingdom, provides, under certain indispensable conditions, for the increased efficiency of the lifeboat service.
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IN a dock of the Exhibition grounds at the Fisheries Exhibition at Bergen—it is held in the Nygaard Park, which runs down to a river—there are four Life- boats. They are not to be known for Life-boats at a glance, being shaped and rigged in...
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Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hand Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility chat includes a dill repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
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Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hard Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility that includes a Rill repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
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Awards made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 160 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 6 Honorary Life Governorships,...
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THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...
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HALF-A-MILE from the village, close to the verge of a cliff more remarkable for its fossiliferous deposits than for height, a little wooden hut, built of wreck- timber and roofed with red tiles, stands exposed to the full fury of every storm...
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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 30th June, 1955 - - 79,260 Notes of the Quarter H.R.II. THE DrKF. OF attended...
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IN the December, 1961, number of the LIFE-BOAT on page 177 it was stated that the Falmouth life-boat was launched on the 16th August. In fact the date of the launch was the 16th July..
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