THE BEST WEATHER CLOTHING IN THE WORLD AIRFLOW COAT JACKET LIGHTWEIGHT JACKETS ARE CONDENSATION WATERPROOF FREE FROM ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION Keller of 28 February 1974 from Assistant Superintendent (Stores) • Your company's...
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Margate, Kent. At 5.19 on the after- noon of the 3rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties two miles east of Tongue Sand Fort. The life-boat North Fore- land (Civil...
THE fund which the Mayor of Tyne- mouth opened to supplement the pensions paid by the Institution to the dependent relatives of the men who lost their lives when the Cullercoats motor life-boat capsized on exercise on 22nd April, 1939, was...
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CRAB BOAT AIDED Cromer, Norfolk. At 9 a.m. on 2pth June, 1964, the crab boat George William was seen by the coxswains of the two lifeboat stations to be adrift with a fouled propeller one mile south-east of Cromer.
The crab...
Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.20 in the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat at anchor, three and a half miles to the eastward, was sig- nalling for help. The motor life-boat Cyril...
A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message in a Bottle.
THREE more have to be added to the many and varied false alarms which have called out Life-boats.* On 25th August last, the Motor Life-boat at...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 90 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 104 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 27th November, 1930 62,443 Grace Darling's Coble.
A...
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A new life-boat to be presented to the Royal National Life-boat Institution by Birds Eye Foods Ltd. will be stationed at New Quay, Cardiganshire. The money for the new boat was produced through the Birds Eye 'Help Launch a Life-boat...
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ENGINE FAILURE Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.15 p.m.
on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been observed half-a-mile off shore at Mablethorpe. At 9.45 the lifeboat...