Thursday, 14th September, 1899.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Dial 999 - Emergency Services in Action by John Creighton ISBN 1-85058-297-1 published by Sigma Leisure at £9.95 John Creighton has spent some time as an operational firefighter and in the maritime rescue services, so is well qualified...
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THE last article on the Installation of the Motor in Life-boats appeared in The Life-boat Journal, VOL XX., No. 225, published in August, 1907, and it will it is thought be of interest to our readers if we review the progress made since that...
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Home port of the 44' Waveney Offshore Lifeboat The Scout and Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Guide Friendship III by Joan Davies BY THE EXPRESS WISH of Her Majesty The Queen, the theme for this, her Silver Jubilee year, is youth and the...
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YEAR OF THE SEA EXHIBITION
Ongoing
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Discover the impact of the sea on Welsh landscape and culture at the Tra Môr yn Fur: Wales and the Sea exhibition until Saturday...
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WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 12th of August, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen four and a half miles south-east-by-east of Shoreham Harbour. At 9.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and-Phyllis...
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—The Life-boat stationed here by the Institution many years ago has been replaced by a new one named the Brothers Brickwood, the cost of which was generously bequeathed to the Institution...
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Lofty lifesavers Sometimes, lifeboats need a little help from above. The Lifeboat meets the air crew who play their part in sea rescues – and who are lifesavers in their own right It’s a chilly Sunday morning on the windy, exposed airfield...
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