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Committee of Management Commandant Vonla McBride, former director of the WRNS, Christopher Lucy, a stockbroker, and John James, a chartered surveyor, have joined the Committee of Management of the RNLI.
Commandant McBride...
Category: Articles
While Fred Williams (I) Appeals Office Supervisor Spins the Drum Tom O'Connor (Centre) Draws the Winning Tickets In the Rnll's Second Lottery at Poole Hq on Marc
While Fred Williams (I.), appeals office supervisor, spins the drum, Tom O'Connor (centre) draws the winning tickets in the RNLl's second lottery at Poole HQ on March 31. With them are Joyce Pearce, who organises the lottery at HQ,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Friendship, of Goole
The ketch Friendship, of Goole, having sprung a leak off St.
Abbs Head, would not steer and could not fetch a port, and she consequently drifted on the Annat sandbank, off Mon- trose, early on the morning of the 15th...
To the Help of Birds
On May 3ist the Selsey life-boat travelled three miles in a choppy sea and heavy rain to the rescue of eight men seen drifting on a raft. The life-boat found that the raft was a R.A.F. target, and as she approached it the men flew away. They...
Category: Articles
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION is certainly deeply indebted to the ladies and gentlemen who, under the able guidance of Mr. CHARLES W. MACARA, the energetic promoter of the "Life-boat Saturday" move- ment, brought the...
Category: Articles
Around the Coast
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
Category: Articles
The S.S.. Gervase
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—At 4.20 A.M., on the 18th May, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W., a screw-steamer was seen ashore on the North Sand Head, with signals of distress flying; and about the same time signal guns were fired from the...
Some Ways of Raising Money
An evening auction of antiques and fine art at Bonham's Montpelier Galleries, Knightsbridge, on May 25, organised by the Central London Committee and conducted by Nicholas Bonham, raised nearly £6,000 for the lifeboat service. The...
Category: Donations
Centenary of the Institution, 1924. Appeal to Honorary Secretaries
Tim Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
Raymond Baxter Chairman of the Rnli Public Relations
Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI Public Relations Committee, flanked by (I.) Mrs B. Robertson, chairman of the Walton and Frinton ladies' guild and (r.) Mrs Wilberforce, president, when he was chief guest and speaker at a dinner... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs