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To Help Their Local Life-Boat Day Publicity Campaign,
To help their local life-boat day publicity campaign, Susan Gardiner, of Helensburgh, Linda Kelly, of Cardross, and Janet McMillan, of Helensburgh, volunteered to be towed about Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, on 6th June, 1970, in an IRB. At... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Figures
Two figures, representing lifeboatmen of 1882 and 1982 and sculptured by Bernard Schwartz, are being produced b The History of Porcelain Company, High Street, Shoreham Village, Sevenoaks, Kent ("Tel: Otford 3416). Until September 1982... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Met Office
DIAL BEFORE YOU SAIL 464 451 454 PORTSMOUTH BRIGHTON BOURNEMOUTH «*-• • Now, before sailing, you can check the latest coastal weather conditions anywhere in the UK, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - simply by picking up your telephone.<...
Category: Advertisement
£436 from Ships' Life-Boat Engines.
The Austin Motor Company, which is generously giving the Institution one shilling for each horse-power of every engine which it makes for a ship's life-boat, has now given £436: 8:-. The first gift of £240, presented to the...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
The proprietor of Highfields Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, recently received a substantial contribution in his life-boat collecting-box from a German visitor.
The German explained that he had been a U-boat commander in the last...
Category: Donations
Life-Boat Regulations
THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (1)
WHITBY.—On the 2nd December four fishing-cobles were observed to be making for the harbour, and as the wind and sea increased, the Harriott Forteafh Life-boat went out, supplied the crews of the cobles •with life-belts, and attended each of...
Fishing Boats (2)
On the 26th March about forty-five of the boats were again overtaken by a gale and a very heavy sea, and the lighthouse keeper signalled for the Life-boat. Ten of the boats returned without shooting their lines; the others, which had shot...
Days of Magic
EACH year for the past three years, the Magical Societies throughout the country have held a national day of magic as near to All Halloween as possible and have presented the sums made to a national charity.
In 1948 the...
Category: Donations
(Above) Leeds Appeal Committee Organised a Charity Greyhound Meeting at Elland Road Stadium on May 6 Various Firms In the City Sponsored the Eight Races to £100 Ea
(Above) Leeds appeal committee organised a charity greyhound meeting at Elland Road Stadium on May 6. Various firms in the city sponsored the eight races, to £100 each, and a very successful and enjoyable occasion yielded about... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs