IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...
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OCEAN CRUISE UK - No Fly in plete British Charters 5- . "*r ~* '.~t% Onboard the MY Van Gogh Thousands of happy cruisers have already fallen in love with the impressive MV Van Gogh, with its excellent range of facilities and very...
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COVER PICTURE by Rick Tomlinson A Trent class lifeboat on trials off Cowes in winds gusting to 50 knots. This is one of many spectacular photos which appear in Rick Tomlinson's 1996 Lifeboat Calendar. Details on page... - View image in PDF
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Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
In the North-West of England.
THE Institution is anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do...
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Letters of Gratitude.
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- ber, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to...
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A long, hard pull: Tug-of-war between Redcar (seen below), Teesmouth and Runswick Bay lifeboat crews resulted in a win for Runswick Bay and helped raise £637 on Redcar''s lifeboat day.
Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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First silver medal for a Blue Peter ILB crew member was awarded to Helmsman David Bliss of St Agnes. After the award was annouced, David Bliss and his crew were the guests of the BBC's Blue Peter television programme, (left to right)... - View image in PDF
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Launches 102. Lives rescued 193.
April Meeting.
Aberdeen.—During the very bad storms from 21st January to 1st Febru- ary the motor life-boat was launched three times, the pulling and sailing life- boat...
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Donald Steward of The Grange, New Buckenham, Norwich, NOR O4X, would like to remind everyone that the closing date of his National Car Competition is 30th September, 1967, and would be grateful to receive any sold books as soon as possible...
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