THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
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KIRKWALL, ORKNEYS. On the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1946, a Polish soldier was off Crow Nest Point, in Kirkwall Bay, on a raft and being blown out to sea. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At the request of the...
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REFERENCE has been made before in The Life-boat to the way in which old age continues to help the life-boats.
There are five more very touching examples of such service.
A Croydon lady 79 years old has...
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CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 28th May, about 1 A.M., the Castletown Life-boat Commercial Traveller, No. 2, was launched and proceeded to the Austrian barque Junak, of Spalato, which vessel had driven ashore in Castletown Bay, whilst it...
THE Earl of Harrowby, who has been the Institution's treasurer since 1899, resigned in November, 1946, and the Duke of Montrose, chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a vicepresident of the Institution has accepted the...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 284 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 289 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 285 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 290 Life-boat Stations...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 21st of March, 1951, the life-boat watchman reported a life-boat in a bad position in the bay. At 7.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...