ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of...
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Members of the Lyme Regis branch of the R.N.L.I, demonstrating the 'kiss of life' apparatus. In the photograph are Miss V. Crabb; the 'patient', Miss J. RafTo, and IRB crew members Mr. John Chase and Mr. Albert... - View image in PDF
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How many teddy bears does it take to buy a Neil Robertson stretcher? One hundred! Mary Woods of Test branch knitted and sold 100 teddies and paid for the stretcher now being used at Beaumaris lifeboat station. One obviously satisfied... - View image in PDF
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Harbour Account Up to 7.8% gross The Royal Bank will donate 0.25% of total balances to the RNLI at the end of each year, and If 2,000 accounts are opened over 2 years, we will donate a total of at least £50,000 towards a new...
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THE Institution has had made for it a new sound film which tells the story of the building of a motor life-boat. It starts on the other side of the world, with the hauling by elephants of teak logs in the Burmese forests, and the felling of...
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ON 21st January, 1937, an aeroplane, G—AELT, with two men on board, left Liverpool for Belfast at ten in the morning. She did not arrive. A southerly wind was blowing, varying from a fresh breeze to a strong gale.
The sea...
Category: Services
On the night of the 20th January the s.s. City of Lahore, belonging to Liverpool, stranded on Kearney Point. The Life-boat John was launched and proceeded to the steamer. The captain requested the boat to stand by, which she did. While the...
Cromarty.—Early in the afternoon of the 12th January the Helmsdale coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground in a dangerous position at the entrance to Little Ferry, in Dornoch Firth. She was the s.s.
Totnes, of...
THE following is a Return, compiled from Parliamentary Documents, of the number of ships which entered inwards, and cleared outwards, from British ports, during the year 1861; that for 1862 not having as yet been published:— Ships. Tone.<...
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Two stations celebrated their centen- aries in 1951: Lytham and New- biggin; and three in 1952: Cullercoats, Rhyl and Tenby.
A vellum was presented to each station by the Institution, signed by the Duchess of Kent as its...
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