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The Prince of Wales As President of the Institution Strongly Advocates the Cause
IT was only in March last that H.K.H.
The PRINCE of WALES very graciously accepted the post of President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in succession to the late lamented DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, and at once...
Category: Articles
The Sailor's Medallion Reproduced on This Page—It Was Found on the Suffolk Coast—Is Inscribed 'For God and Our Sailors—Pray for Us'.
The sailor's medallion reproduced on this page—it was found on the Suffolk coast—is inscribed 'For God And Our Sailors—Pray For Us'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Corner
9 In Captain George Manby, the inventor of the line-throwing mortar, Kenneth VValthew has found an excellent subject for a lively and colourful biography (From Rock and Tempest, Geoffrey Bles, £1.90/38s.). Manby was one of those...
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Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The first four pages of the Report give an historical sketch of the Institution, and describe its object, composition and management, after which it continues as follows:— COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE INSTITUTION.
During the...
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An Airliner
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
Two Young School Girls Claire Durbin and Claire Wates Organised a Sponsored Swim on Behalf of the Rnli In the Swimming Pool of Button High School All Ten of The
Two young school girls, Claire Durbin and Claire Wates, organised a sponsored swim on behalf of the RNLI in the swimming pool of Button High School. All ten of the 10-year-old girls taking part completed the maximum half mile, and between... - View image in PDF
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News
neWs 21st century stations The RNLI’s Shoreworks team is continuing to update lifeboat stations around the UK and RoI, thanks to your support.
In Hoylake, Merseyside, a £2M appeal has been launched to raise funds for a...
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The Life-Boat Disasters at Southport and St. Anne's
SINCE the publication of the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL, terrible disas- ters have befallen the crews of the Life- boats at Southport and St. Anne's, on the coast of Lancashire, the full details of which are given in the...
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Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and...
Category: Services