THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have frequently brought under their notice lamentable instances of persons being drowned, from the capsizing or swamping of boats, who might probably have been saved had they been...
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Fishing vessel aground A DISTRESS CALL asking for lifeboat assistance from the fishing vessel Admiral Van Tromp was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by Whitby Coastguard at 0302 on Thursday, September 30, 1976; the...
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A LIFE-BOAT exhibition was held at Watford, Herts, from 2nd October to 9th October as the principal part of a life-boat week, organized by the new honorary secretary of the branch, Mr.
H. Mellon, M.R.T.S. The exhibition was...
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Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.
For years I have lived alongside a famous...
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The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
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Awards at Herne Bay and The Gugh, Isles of Scilly.
THE Institution has made special awards for two acts of individual gallantry in saving life at sea. one by Mr. Frank Holness, of Herne Bav, the other by Mrs. G. B. Bond,...
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RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...
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' THE MATE AND HIS DUTIES.' By flw late Capt. JOSEPH J. KELLY. Third Edition.
TAYLOR, IMRAY, and SON, Minories, London; ROCKLIFF and SON, Liverpool.
Price 2s.
IN our 29th...
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KILMORE, co. WEXFORD. — The schooner Antelope of Wexford stranded, during thick but moderate weather on the 6th May, about half a mile east of Bastardstown. Information of the casualty was received from the Coastguard at 3 A.M., and the crew...
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