A fine service was carried out by the Flamborough No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, Forester, on April 28th, when she rescued the crew of sixteen of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. In the early hours of the morning, in a dense fog,...
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Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1934.
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58 6 0 •••• ••••••••• •••••H B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats...
Category: Accounts
FOUR appeals were made for the Lifeboat Service during the war in "The Week's Good Cause," in the Home Service of the B.B.C. They were made by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, Lord Winster, a member of the...
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Padstow, Cornwall. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the keeper of theTrevose Head lighthouse had reported a capsized boat with someone clinging to her...
THURSDAY, 12th September, 1901.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...
Category: Medals
1st January Greater London.
CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.
CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge and Whist Drive. Address by the Assistant District Organizing Secretary.<...
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IN another column of the Life-boat Journal we give an account of the exceptionally fine service performed by the Gorleston Life-boatmen on the 29th March, which led to the Fifth Service Clasp being bestowed on Cox- swain Sidney Harris and...
Category: Medals