• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...
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THE accompanying graphic accounts of the wreck of the Indian Chief, and of the noble rescue of a portion of her crew by the Bradford self-righting Life-boat, sta- tioned at Ramsgate, appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th and 18th Jan.,...
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A SPECIAL service was held in Liverpool Cathedral on 26th November, 1933, at which some 200 people were present, in remembrance of those who, by their generosity and self-sacrifice, had brought into being the life-boat...
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DENTAL CARES Skegness, Lincolnshire. At u a.m.
on 15th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man aboard the Lynwell lightvessel required urgent dental treatment and the use of the life-boat...
WHITBY. — The fishing-cobles Lady Morris and Anne Elizabeth, of Whitby, which had gone out fishing in the morning of the 5th October, were reported at about 2 P.M. to be just outside the bar, their crews making signals by blowing their...
THE thirty-five women launchers of Boulmer were represented at the Annual Meeting by Miss N. Stephenson, the daughter of the Coxswain, and Mrs. B.
Stanton, the wife of the Second Coxswain. During their stay in London they...
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Just because a lifeboat has not reached her new home and been officially put on station does not stop her being a lifeboat, as these two photographs show.
The Severn class allocated to Harwich on the east coast was taking...
The RNLI has been developing its policy of formal training for lifeboatmen since the early 1970s — Here Capt.
GEORGE COOPER RD, MNI, RNR, Deputy Chief of Operations, discusses the value of training with those who received...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy seemed to be in diffi- culties about a mile off the Tyne entrance. The sea was rough and a • moderate westerly...
MRS. AMY LEA WARREN PEARL, an honorary life-governor of the Institu- tion, died on ist February, 1964, at the age of 83. She was a member of the Chelsea branch committee from 1936, became vice-chairman in 1951, and subscribed generously to...
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