BOOKs From cargos of coffee and tobacco to the thrills of speedboat testing, from learning the ropes to total disaster - Carol Waterkeyn and Sam Price review four more titles to bring you closer to the sea Unless other ordering details are...
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1st November, 1933, to 31st January, 1934.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive.
CROYDON.—Lantern lectures at Wood- side by Mr. F. C. Ashby and the district organizing...
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A Welsh Folk Night was held last August at the Royal Pier Pavilion, Aberystwyth, to raise funds for the station's new lifeboat. Soloists, including Helmsman Alan Blair, provided the Welsh flavour but the evening ended with a hilarious...
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THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every shipwrecked person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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'WE would like to give a donation . . .'.
Welcome words to anyone who has a hand in raising money for the R.N.L.I., and we hear them often at the various functions arranged by ladies' guilds, branches and...
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0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
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The volunteers aboard an inshore lifeboat faced nearly overwhelming conditions one day last March …
The shipping and inshore waters forecast at 5.20am warned of the impending...
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AT the Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION in March last, Admiral Sir GEO. F. SEYMOUR, K.C.B., some time since Commander-in-Chief of H.M.'s Squadron on the North American Station, read the following interesting...
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WHEN, in March, 1920, I paid my first visit to the Isle of Man, I did so for a double reason. I wanted to see all the Isle of Man Stations and to have the advantage of meeting the Honorary Secretaries and Committees. But the main object in...
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