In the first two years of war life-boats have rescued 4058 lives. They have rescued more lives in these two years of war than in the last eleven years of peace.
They have rescued 39 lives each week. They have rescued a life...
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IN making his report on the past year's work of the life-boat service at the Institution's annual general meeting on the 30th of March, a meeting which is reported in full on page 436, Earl Howe, the Chairman of the Committee of...
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OWING to the fact that the present Head- quarters at Life-boat House, Charing Cross Road, have for some years been too small for the staff required to deal with the constant expansion of the Institution's activities, the Committee of...
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PATRICK HOWARTH When the Riviera Was Ours Patrick Howarth describes how foreigners, and the British in particular, made the French Riviera what it was, and what it is: from Tobias Smollett, who was an early visitor, through Queen Victoria...
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AFTER forty years' service in the Life- boat, during twenty of which he was Coxswain, Mr. Thos. Sparshott has re- tired with the Institution's pension. On 25th July a meeting was held in the Selsey Life-boat House, at which the...
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THE Institution has lost an old and valued friend by the death at the begin- ning of January of Dr. W. B. Addison, M.D., the chairman of the Scilly Islands branch.
For fourteen years, from 1918 to 1932, he was the honorary...
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DRIFTING FISHING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 14th June, 1962, the police at Whitehead informed the honorary secretary that a boat was drifting with three people on board off Black Head. The...
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THE Whitstable IRB performed an unusual service on 29th December, 1966 - in fact, no other IRB to date has had a similar service.
The Whitstable report stated: 'A passing taxi driver reported to Whitstable police that a...
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In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.
Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...
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