Fig. 5: New sacrificial anodes are fitted to afloat boats each year. The wastage caused by electrolytic action can be seen by comparing new anode with old one just taken off Edian Courtauld: Ji/6 of metal had been eroded in twelve months at... - View image in PDF
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Brownies were by far the greatest moneyspinners in the Guide Friendship Fund lifeboat project: 1st Woodseaves Brownies sent in £33 after a sponsored skip — to reach their target, each of 24 girls had to make 50... - View image in PDF
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Small Paddington Bear soft toys will be on sale in branches of Barclays and Woolwich throughout the UK from 4 July-7 August 2006. They cost just £2 each and all proceeds will go to the RNLI'sTrain one, save many. - View image in PDF
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At the end of each month the Institution brings out a leaflet with the figures of launches and lives rescued up to date, Copies of .this leaflet will be sent to any honorary secretaries who would like to have them for distribution..
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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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At daybreak on the 20th. November the Life-boat Richard and Sarah was instrumental in saving two fishing smacks and their crews of 4 men each. These vessels were, prior to the arrival of the Life-boat, most critically situated, owing...
The rescue of 62 lives from the City of Glasgow on the night of 19th October, 1825, when Hillary himself was washed overboard, and had his chest crushed and six ribs broken. This was one of three services for each of which he was awarded the... - View image in PDF
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The Institution wishes to express its cordial thanks to Messrs. Cadbury, Messrs. Fry, and Messrs. Rowntree for their gifts of thirty tins of chocolate each, which have been sent for use in the Lifeboats. For a number of years these three...
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On the same day the Institution received two gifts, each of two guineas, from masonic lodges. One gift had travelled a few miles, from East London, the other 6,000 miles, from East London in South Africa..
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