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AN RNLI JUBILEE FAYRE, organised by a committee representing several North Cornwall branches, will be held on the Royal Agricultural Show grounds, Wadebridge, on Wednesday, August 24.
The grounds have kindly been made...
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American Gold Medal for the Institution
THE Institution has been awarded the " Gold Life-saving Medal of Honor " of the United States of America, which was personally presented on 25th June by Commander C. D. Hinckley, of the U.S.
Coast Guard, who had...
Category: Awards
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Round Britain Windsurf Tim Batstone is planning to windsurf round the entire 2,000 mile coastline of Britain in 1984, sailing in a clockwise direction starting and finishing at Tower Bridge. His aims include being the first person to achieve...
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Medals of the National Shipwreck Institution
WE have had frequent opportunities to witness the high value which our own countrymen attach to the medals of this Institution, some 600 of which have been voted to them for acts of gallantry; and we have much satisfaction in extracting the...
Category: Medals
(Left) Mr Michael Vernon the Chairman
(Left) Mr Michael Vernon, the Chairman of the RNLI addresses the audience at the Annual Presentation of Awards ceremony in the Festival Hall, London on 14 May 1991.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Crews on the Yorkshire Coast
FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...
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One of the Highlights of the Splendid 150th Anniversary Banquet In the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College Greenwich on October 11 1974 Was a Piccolo Solo By Ban
One of the highlights of the splendid 150th anniversary banquet in the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on October 11, 1974, was a piccolo solo by Band Corporal R. O.
Howgill, Royal Marines. The Duke of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Heroic Conduct.—Award of the Gold Medal of the National Life-Boat Institution
ON the occasion of the late fearful wreck of the steamer Royal Charter, with the loss of no less than 450 of those on board her, there was one person amongst the few survivors of the catastrophe who has been deservedly held up to public...
Category: Medals
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 9
BEFORE concluding this subject, a few comparative notes as to cost, size, weight, &c., of the Life-boats under dis- cussion may prove of interest.
Taking the matter of cost first. It is difficult to assign the exact...
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The New Tractor for Launching Life-Boats
The Institution has now had designed for it, by the Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company, a Tractor, with a Roadless Traction creeper track, which, it is hoped, will be able to launch Life-boats off all types of beach. The carriages of the...
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