On the 13th March the Life-boat was again called out, a mounted messenger arriving at SAO P.M. and reporting a schooner in danger of running aground on the rocks. The Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found she was the Jessie Ray, of...
FOURTEEN years since a movement com- menced of an altogether novel character in the life-boat work, and which is without precedent in this or in any other country.
At that period a benevolent lady presented the NATIONAL...
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AN Oxford Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund was formed in 1900 by the late Commander Maunsell, R.N., and Mr. Belcham, Headmaster of St. Peter-iu-the-East School, who still takes a keen interest in the work of the Institution. By means...
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Opposite, middle and bottom: The candidates are put through their paces with radar, Admiralty chart and pilotage plan Photos: Anne Millman. - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th September, 1956 80,491 Notes of the Quarter THE summer months of 1956 were exceptionally...
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The reserve life-boat, which was on temporary duty at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, broke from her moorings on 12th April, 1969, and was wrecked. The picture (left) shows her before she was taken in tow by the Barry lifeboat and (above) the... - View image in PDF
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The Mayor and Mayoress of Greenwich, Lady Kinahan, Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Kinahan, Mr. L. C. H. Cave, a member of the Institution's Committee of Management, and Mr. Frank Carr, director of the Museum (See page 109). - View image in PDF
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Appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, O.BJL THE Committee of Management have appointed .Lieutenant-Colonel C. R.
Satterthwaite, O.B.E., the Deputy- Secretary, to be Secretary of the Institution in...
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8th January.
The Fleetwood life-boat on passage to her station had engine trouble, but did not need help.—Rewards, £2 10s..
Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, M.P., Minister of Transport, looking at the Institution's medal which Acting-Coxswain Pow was wearing, awarded to his grandfather, Captain John Marshall, in 1850.. - View image in PDF
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