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THE accompanying illustration of one of the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION proceeding off to a wreck, is from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. SAMUEL WALTERS, an eminent marine artist of Bootle, near Liverpool. He was...
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In Retirement Services
Are you a homeowner over 70? Release tax-free Blease tree I cash from your home If you are a homeowner aged over 70 (both over 70 if a couple) you may be able to release some of the money locked in your home to do the things you...
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Volvo
THE VOLVO RANGE EXCLUSIVE SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS OF THE RYA AS AN RYA MEMBER YOU ARE ENTITLED TO EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS ON A NEW VOLVO SUPPLIED FROM HR OWEN. IN ADDITION TO THESE PRIVILEGED TERMS WE WILL ORGANISE A TEST DRIVE FOR YOU AT YOUR...
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Religious Services
RELIGIOUS ceremonies associated with the Life-boat Service have been held in recent months in Bolton. Hoylake, New Brighton, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey in the north- west district of England; Bude, Clo- velly, Land's End...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Drawing the crowds The RNLI's 67th national lottery draw took place at the Institution's Poole headquarters on Monday 31 October 1994 when Miss Millvina Dean, aged 82 and the youngest survivor of the Titanic tragedy, drew the winning...
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Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1936, and Numbers of the Fleets
DUEING 1936 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 45 British vessels.
Three of these services were by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 2 by Holland, 3 by Iceland, 1 by Sweden, and 35 by the United...
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An Aerial Picture of the Rosslare Harbour Life-Boat R. Hope Roberts Which Is a 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent Type Costing About £70,000.
An aerial picture of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat R. Hope Roberts which is a 48-foot 6-inch Solent type costing about £70,000.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First Service of the Lerwick Life-Boat
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made possible by the system of coast communication which had recently been...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE FOURTEENTH International Lifeboat Conference was formally opened by HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden on June 5 in Gothenburg. More than 50 papers on subjects of mutual interest were presented to delegates from 24 lifeboat societies from all...
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The S.S. Afterglow
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 8th of August, 1951, the Spurn Point coastguard sent a message that the S.S. Afterglow, of London, had asked the life-boat to land a man with an injured eye. The Afterglow was due off the...