ALTHOUGH, considering its benevolent object, the small site of ground that is usually required to build a life-boat house on is not likely frequently to become the subject of litigation, yet the Committee of the Royal National Life-Boat...
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On the 14th February the schooner Mary Anne, of New Quay, while attempting to enter the Boyne with a cargo of Indian corn, during a strong wind from the S.W. and a heavy surf, struck on Drogheda Bar. The life-boat stationed at that place...
(Left) Lady Saltoun Receives Her Bouquet Following Her Address and The Presentation of Awards. Photos Nia/L Hartley Photography. - View image in PDF
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Support for the American!British Lifeboat Appeal is growing on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York last September, after a Silver Jubilee performance by the Band of the Grenadier Guards and the Pipes and Drums of the Scots Guards, a... - View image in PDF
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel....
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 11 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had fired an orange flare about three miles south by east from Pendennis.
The life-boat Crawford and...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...
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The fishwife who has collected £501 in 12 years. (See previous page.). - View image in PDF
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ON the night of the 31st January- 1st February the sea invaded large areas of land in many parts of the east coast, when exceptionally high tides were driven higher by violent northerly winds often reaching gale force. The floods which...
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The Chairman of the Failsworth, Lancashire, Urban District Council, Mr. George Edge, has adopted the lifeboat service as his particular charity during his year of office and is trying to persuade a thousand organisations or individuals each...
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