" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.
'•What, sir...
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THE Board of Trade have recently pub- lished, in accordance with their annual custom, a Blue Book overflowing with interesting information and tables of figures such as to delight the most enthusiastic statistician, furnishing elaborate...
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(From Pullen's Kent Argus, 1st Dec., 1888.) THE triennial dinner to Ramsgate Lifeboat men, the expenses of which are defrayed by the interest of 200Z. left by the late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., took place on the 29th November, at...
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ON the occasion of the late fearful wreck of the steamer Royal Charter, with the loss of no less than 450 of those on board her, there was one person amongst the few survivors of the catastrophe who has been deservedly held up to public...
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WE think that the public will be inter- ested to learn something of the way in which the Institution deals with one of the most important branches of the great life-saving work entrusted to it. Few except technicaJ experts can fully realize...
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THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...
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LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in ! rear of the main axle, the...
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LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
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THIRTEEN PRIZES were drawn in the RNLFs twenty-third national lottery on October 28, 1983, by 13 special guests to Poole HQ, all of whom had been involved in the National Soap Box Grand Prix, which, held at Blakesley, Northamptonshire, had...
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats...
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