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Category: Advertisement
Some Ways of Raising Money
Carol singers were out in force before Christmas. In the London area, members of the Mermaid Committee raised £40.41, and Frances Brace with a group of her friends from Forms 5 and 6 of Godolphin and Latymer School collected £93.46...
Category: Donations
Offshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1975
Aberdeen, Grampian March 7.
Aith, Shetland April 23.
Angle, Dyfed May 11 and 14.
Baltimore, Co. Cork April 8.
Barra Island, Western Isles March 22 and April 10.
Category: Services
Letters
Support our volunteer crews It was an excellent idea to enclose the two eye catching Support our volunteer crews window stickers with the Spring 2003 issue of the Lifeboat.
Until a few years ago we used to have Support the...
Category: Correspondence
Letters
Why do I support the RNLI? Two accounts follow of contrasting, unusual experiences on a lifeboat in answer to this question During the Second World War I served for a time in an RNLI boat The Sir William Hillary, ex Dover station. I was 19...
Category: Correspondence
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 21st July 1879 the Mincing Lane Life-boat rendered some assistance to the Dutch fishing-smack Nooit Polmakt, which had gone too far to the northward while running for the harbour, and had stranded on the Annat Bank...
Category: Services
Constellation Aircraft Disaster
ON the 14th of August, 1958, a disastrous accident occurred when a K.L.M.
Constellation aircraft crashed in the Atlantic more than 80 miles from the west-coast of Ireland. Ninety-nine people lost their lives. Life-boats...
Category: Services
Critical choice
With his dive buddy unconscious on the seabed, Luke Corkill faced a split-second decision: should he risk the bends by bringing her up fast, or face handing a body over to RNLI crews?
Dive...
Category: Articles
Readers Union (Maritime Book Society)
experiences of the most famous lone sailors of the Atlantic To: Maritime Book Society, PO Box 6, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 2DW I would like to join the Maritime Book Society and claim Challenge for only £1.00 post free (Allow up to 21...
Category: Advertisement
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the LORD MAYOR of London, on Thursday, the 28th of February, 1867, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.,...
Category: Annual Reports