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Tributes to Sir George Shee

Date: December 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 308

Torbay Motor Life-boat to be Named after Him.

AT their meeting on 17th September the Committee of Management resolved to " mark their high appreciation of Sir George Shee, as Secretary of the Institu- tion for...

Category: Articles

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Summer 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 489

How many branches have had a whole island put at their disposal for a picnic supper? Broadstone branch had such an honour when Mr and Mrs H. J.

Palmer kindly allowed them to use Round Island in Poole Harbour in...

Category: Articles

Yachts and Dinghies (1)

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...

Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.

During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...

Category: Services

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Poole guild, formed twelve years ago with ten members, now has a membership of 700 and since 1969 it has raised 63,000; the total last year exceeded 15,000. Members of the guild man both a lifeboat caravan on Poole Quay, which took...

Category: Donations

Quality Training for Quality Crew

Date: Summer 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 565

As part of its mission to save lives at sea, the RNLl insists on top level training for lifeboat crews. The hope is that the better trained the lifeboat crews are, the more lives will be saved and the less likely it is that the crews...

Category: Articles

No Sea Room—And Other Things

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

No Sea Room -and other things ROCKS, SHALLOWS or obstructing lines reduced the lifeboats' manoeuvring room in four of the services (described briefly below) for which medals for gallantry were presented at the Royal Festival Hall in May...

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On the Employment of the Laryngoscope In the Treatment of Asphyxia By Submersion

Date: July 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 77

By A DE LABORDETTE, Surgeon to the Hospital of Laisieux, Knight of the Legion of Honour.

 THE laryngoscope has been the subject of a favourable report made to the Imperial Academy of Medicine by Professor...

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Mercury Direct, (1)

Date: Winter 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 555

BARGAINS IN TROPICAL QUEENSLAND 2 WEEKS AUSSIE SUN £895 LUXURY BEACHSIDE APARTMENTS RETURN SCHEDULED FLIGHTS FREE OVERNIGHT STOP IN TOKYO Fly to Cairns, Australia's tropical playground, and stay for two carefree weeks at a luxury...

Category: Advertisement

Fund Raising at Sporting Events By Peter Holness

Date: Summer 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 445

A WAY of raising funds is to hold collections at sporting events, such as professional football matches, race meetings and dog track meetings, all of which attract large gates. Four London football clubs were helpful in 1970 and each allowed...

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