I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...
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THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, fully recognising the responsi- bility which rests upon it to provide the Life-boat crews with the best possible means for conducting their life-saving work, decided in the year 1891 to carry out a...
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It can sometimes be forgotten that the excitement of having a new lifeboat on station is often tinged with real sadness at losing an old friend - a lifeboat which has see the crew through thick and thin and whose every nut, bolt and foible... - View image in PDF
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MARCH 12TH. - GALWAY BAY. A British aeroplane had crashed in Galway Bay, and the five members of her crew had baled out.
Two of them were found, but the others seemed to have been blown far out to sea, and the motor...
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—27th September. A motorist had reported that he had seen an aeroplane crash into th« sea, but nothing could be found.
—Rewards, Dungeness, £16 11s. 6d. • Dover, Partly permanent paid...
JUNE 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and her pilot had baled out, but he was picked up by a boat which had put out from the shore. - Rewards, £11 10s..
APRIL 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE, AND SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea several miles off Mablethorpe, but nothing could be found.- Rewards : - Skegness, £8 1s. 6d. ; The...
OCTOBER 13TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported to have crashed and the airman to have come down by parachute, but it turned out to be only a parachute flare. - Rewards, £12 3s..
NOVEMBER 10TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot and his two passengers were rescued from the shore. The owner of the aeroplane gave a donation to the Institution. - Rewards, £10 11s...
The size of FAB 3 has allowed space for a special survivors' cabin below decks, additional seating is also provided at the aft end of the wheelhouse.. - View image in PDF
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