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The Viking conquerors who, invading the Kentish coast last July with their twin-hulled Nor-dick, defeated 42 other rafts in Herne Bay branch's 1983 raft race by being voted best raft and crew and by collecting the most in sponsorship,... - View image in PDF
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SERVICE THE following impressions of the Finnish Life-boat Society obtained on a recent visit to Finland are contributed by Lt-Commander The Hon. Greville Howard, VRD, RNR, a vice-president of the RNLI.
He writes:...
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WE much regret to have again to record the death of another tried friend and valuable supporter of, the Shipwreck Institution, in the person of Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., its late esteemed Chairman. Although he had occupied that office...
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IN April, 1951, the Longhope life-boat rescued the crew of forty of the motor tanker Oljaren, of Gothenburg, in a service lasting twenty-three hours.
The Institution awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to the coxswain...
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One of the finest services in the neighbourhood of Gorleston in exceptionally severe weather was performed by the steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 on the night of 15th-16th January, 1905. A strong S.E. wind had been blowing for days, and...
By the death on 15th July, at the age of sixty-nine, of Mr. Benjamin Simons, of Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, the Institution has lost an honorary worker who has been associated with it for forty- three years. Mr. Simons was appointed...
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The late Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Longhope, who lost his life when the life-boat capsized on 17th March, had a few days before been told that he had been elected to receive the annual gift of £5 from the Miss Maud Smith endow-...
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