WHILE ON TRIALS Reserve life-boat. At n a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the reserve life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson put out from a ship- builders' yard at Rowhedge, Essex, in a light westerly breeze and a slight sea.
She was...
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Mrs Marie Winstone in her garden with the Duke of Atholl after she had presented to him a cheque for £300,000 to fund a 52ft Arun to be stationed at Fishguard.
With them are (I.) Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of... - View image in PDF
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THE subject set for the eighth Lifeboat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools was " Describe the kind of man that a good Life-boatman should be." The number of schools taking part was 1919, an increase on last year of 427. The...
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Donaghadee lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris, set out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to go to the help of the Danish liquified gas carrier Regitze Tholstrup aground north of Larne Harbour in an easterly gale and very rough... - View image in PDF
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Rolling in money Fiona Kennedy, Eastleigh & District branch chairman, raised £1,200 from a sponsored 10 mile roller blade marathon in August.
This was no mean feat for someone who described herself on her sponsor...
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At the last annual meeting of the Com- mittee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES, chief clerk of the House of Lords, the honorary secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.E.G.S., reported that during the past year...
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FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
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AT the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of I the Committee of this Fund, held on the 19th January, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller- General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that...
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H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 6th of March, 1961, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings