THE services rendered in connexion with the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla have added another splendid page to the annals of heroism and humanity which make up the story of the Life-boat during the ninety years since the foundation of...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Gross Road, on Saturday, the 12th day of March, 1898, His Grace the DUKE OF LEEDS in the Chair, the following Report of...
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Traditional rivalry between the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh is being used to good effect following the declared intent of Glasgow's Lord Provost, The Right Honorable Robert Gray, JP, that the...
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75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
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A SPECIAL Grand Lodge of the English Free- : masons was held on the 3rd January at Free- ! masons' Hall, London, to receive and consider | the Report of the Special Committee appointed by Grand Lodge on the 6th September last, on the...
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ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
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FIND THE HIDDEN HOLIDAY AND O C A S H U B E T N B I G M L E Y S 0 R A N X J Y G K I 0 E T F L V H D S U L D H Z S I W l P R S R R O T S V R A C E O O B H E K F O Y T C 0 N L R I M L J P M M E P E R F U M E A T K Q E G A T T O C Below are...
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For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Lifeboat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to...
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ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS of inflatable and semi-rigid boats which makes them particularly suitable for rescue work at sea is their inherent stability; and the lower in the water they are, with their wetted beam increased, the greater their...
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Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...