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Greathead's Original Life-Boat

Date: September 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 06

AT a time when great and, we trust, successful efforts are making to improve our life-boats, it is but right to put on record some facts connected with the first life-boat ever used in this country, the credit of which belongs to HENRY...

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The Fundraisers

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

Anniversary Morning Market Harborough ladies' guild celebrated its 21st anniversary year by holding a birthday coffee morning at the home of Mrs Roland Orton, president and founder of the guild.

The party was to thank...

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Life-Boat Services In 1903

Date: May 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 212

Lives saved.

Fayaway, smack of Ramsey .. 2 Fenham, s.S., of Sunderland— assisted to save vessel.

Fingal, four-masted barque, of Dublin 32 Fishing Boats at Cullercoats, Filey, Gourdon, ...

Category: Services

A Caterpillar Tractor for Launching Life-Boats. By Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-Boats

Date: May 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 269

THE great difficulty in the way of prompt Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses.

It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they have frequently to...

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The Voyage of the Motor Life-Boat "William Evans" from Cowes to Wexford

Date: November 1921

Volume: 24

Issue: 274

THE following are some extracts from the report of the Irish District Inspector on the voyage which the new Wexford Motor Life-boat made to her Station, under her own power, as soon as her trials at Cowes had been...

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Shoreline Section

Date: Winter 1975

Volume: 43

Issue: 451

BOAT SHOW 1975: what a memorable eleven days. Here is a diary of just some of the happenings recorded on the Shoreline stand: Wednesday, January 1 Opening day. Arrive early to prepare stand and display insignia and enrolment forms. Impressed...

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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1900

Date: November 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 202

As the years roll on the interest of the people of Great Britain in maritime matters would seem to increase rather than to diminish, and we therefore feel that in drawing the attention of the public, and more especially that part of it...

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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: February 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 115

FERRYSIDE, CAEMAHTHEN BAY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new Life-boat for this station—the boat, like its predecessor, being named the City of Manchester. It is 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rows 10 oars...

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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1914

Volume: 22

Issue: 252

FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January three of the fishing cobles belonging to Flamborough put out to sea. About three hours later, when the boats were five miles from home, the N.N.W. wind...

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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Date: October 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 46

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.

—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...

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