ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, FOUNDED IN 1824, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
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NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...
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For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated T y Royal Charter.1 FOUNDED in 1824. — SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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. MALTA Family run guest house. B&B. air conditioned rooms, bar. home cooking, restaurant. TV room, sunroof with sunbeds, situated in centre of village 'champagne comforts for lemonade money'. C14 p/p/p/night. Self catering...
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Thursday, 5th April, 1860. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.,in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committee.
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1955 - - 79,260 Notes of the Quarter H.R.II. THE DrKF. OF attended...
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Lanzarote lifesavers I shot these photographs in Playa Blancha, Lanzarote recently - the only lifeboats I saw in the Canary Islands! You are welcome to use them to illustrate foreign lifeboats.
Michael Osbaldston South...
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IN the December, 1961, number of the LIFE-BOAT on page 177 it was stated that the Falmouth life-boat was launched on the 16th August. In fact the date of the launch was the 16th July..
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IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...
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AT a press conference held in London on 24th October, Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., Chairman of the R.N.L.I., announced a colourful programme of events to celebrate in 1974 the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the R.N.L.I...
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