SOMETIMES the story is put about that the R.N.L.I. is in the habit of burning life-boats which have been involved in accidents. The truth of the matter is that on a few occasions in the past, when life-boat hulls have been wrecked beyond...
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Lives saved.
Fayaway, smack of Ramsey .. 2 Fenham, s.S., of Sunderland— assisted to save vessel.
Fingal, four-masted barque, of Dublin 32 Fishing Boats at Cullercoats, Filey, Gourdon, ...
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Five men in a boat Tomost people, the idea of rowing across the Irish Sea is incomprehensible, and it was with a degree of trepidation that five amateurs set out at 0330 on Saturday 27 May from Holyhead to tackle the feat and raise money for...
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MAY 26TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. It had been reported that an aeroplane had come down into the sea, but the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £9 1s..
On the 16th March it was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a terrific sea, when the Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Newquay, came into the bay in a distressed state, and after a narrow es- cape of being blown on the rocks, where...
By M. GRANJON de LEPINEY, Administrates Delegue.
[The footnotes are by the Editor of " The Life-Boat"] THE Central Society for Saving the Ship- wrecked * was founded in 1865 in the following circumstances. The...
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Early last year the Kidderminster ladies' life-boat guild gave each member 5s.
and told them to increase it. In September it was reported that over £80 had been raised in this way.
The Little Ship...
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SIR Charles Macara, Bt., of Manchester, for many years one of the most prominent figures in the cotton industry, who died on 2nd January last, nine days before his eighty-fourth birthday, will always be honourably and gratefully remembered...
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Honorary Life-Governors THE following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and present- ed with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the .Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
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ABERSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at Abersoch, near Pwll- heli. A large number of vessels are often at anchor in St. Tudwell's Roads off that place, which are liable to accident or...
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