A company has been set up known as Joint Charities Christmas Appeal Limited to sell Christmas cards on behalf of 19 charities, one of which is the R.N.L.I.
The cards will be known as 'Help Cards' and will be sold in...
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To save lives at sea our brave crews have to be well-trained and well-equipped.
This is why we need you, with a Lifeboats MasterCard, onboard. Sign up today and The Royal Bank of Scotland will donate £10 to the RNLI....
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Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 7.15 on the evening of the llth of May, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say a message had been received from Ailsa Craig that the wife of one of the workers there was ill and required immediate attention. Owing to the...
Bronze medals awarded by the RNLI to Mr. Patrick O'Connor of Meenogahane and Sergeant William McCarthy, neither in the regular service of the Institution, were presented together with miniatures and vellums at a happy gathering in Adare...
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Three souvenir sellers and two competitors (one fourlegged, the other two) pictured at Wootton Creek branch's gymkhana held at Guildford Farm, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight, last summer.
There was beautiful weather and... - View image in PDF
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For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At about 1.30 P.M. on the 5th June it was reported by the coastguard that a flag was being...
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JUNE 11TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking and men on a raft drifting out to sea, east of Seaford. The weather was calm. At 1.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched and...
NOWHERE on the coast of Scotland, or, indeed, on the coasts of the British Isles, has the Institution an Honorary Secre- tary who has worked harder and more successfully for the cause than Mr. Bertram at Dunbar.
For...
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At the blast of Royal National Life-boat Institution whistles, teams of women and schoolgirls drawn from around Bournemouth and Poole began furiously knitting blanket squares at sponsored knitins held simultaneously at Beales of Poole and... - View image in PDF
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0800 on a January morning. Sarah To wnsend Porritt is safely home on her moorings and the crew can disperse. On extreme left, the author, Wallace Lister Barber; second from right, Coxswain Arthur Wignall.. - View image in PDF
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