Councillor Mrs Sheila McQueen, Mayor of Bournemouth, sets Bournemouth lifeboat dav on its way, buying the first sticker from ladies' guild chairman, Mrs Majorie Agar. The total collected in flag week 1982 by all Bournemouth branches and... - View image in PDF
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Ewart Myer and Jim Meade, two of Shoreline's voluntary enrolling team, hard at work on the RNLI's London Boat Show stand: together with the other members of the team, they signed on a grand total of 1,179 new members.. - View image in PDF
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Organisers and VIPs celebrate the third successful 'On the crest of a wave1 concert held at Ennts.
Co. Clare on 16 April 2001. Internationally acclaimed musician Phil Coulter (fourth leftl again topped the Dill helping... - View image in PDF
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Another £600 has been received from South Africa in response to Miss Pattie Price's appeal. £5°o of it comes from the Navy League War Fund of South Africa and £164 from people of Johannesburg. The total is now £2...
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The total receipts last year were £386,836. That is the highest they have ever been. The British public in spite of the increasing burden • of taxation, in spite of all the public and private claims on its purse, has never before given...
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The total raised on this year's SOS day, the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, is over £490,000 and the money is still coming in.
Congratulations and thank you if you organised or supported an SOS event. Next year’s...
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On the 28th De- cember, during a gale from S.S.W., the brig Flying Cloud, of Bideford, was run into by another vessel, and afterwards became a total wreck on Batten Reef. The Prince Consort life-boat was quickly launched, and succeeded in...
Number of lives rescued by life-boats, in addition to 33 vessels saved by them 871 Number of lives saved by shore-boats, &c 860 Amount of pecuniary rewards for saving life during the year ... .. 2,705 0 8 Honorary rewards:...
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On the 19th De- cember the schooner Sisters, of Wick, stone laden/lying in Scrabster Bay, showed sig- nals of distress, it blowing very hard from N.N.E. The Thurso life-boat at once pro- ceeded to her assistance, and brought on shore in...
ST. ANDREW'S, N.B.—On the 24lh October, during a N.E. gale and a heavy sea, the schooner Louise, of Frederickstadt, bound thence to Newcastle with barrel staves, drovd ashore on the West Sands and became a total wreck. The Ladies'...