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Competitors In the York Raft Race from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club Paddle Up the Ouse Under Lendal Bridge Winner of the 43-Strong Home-Fashi
Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums Signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN Centenary Vellums were pre- sented to Stations during the year 1931, and two more presentations were made in 1930 in addition to the ten previously reported in...
Category: Articles
From Foreign Societies
Japan.
THE Imperial Japanese Life-saving Institution issued in March of this year a pamphlet, written in English, giving a brief history of the Japanese Life-boat Service since the chief priest of the Kotohira Shrine in the...
Category: Articles
New £70,000 Life-Boat
With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...
Category: Articles
No Sea Room from Page 18
No Sea Room from page 18 and one man was clinging to the gunwale and the other two were just inside the bulwarks clinging to his legs. Of course you always wonder what's going to happen to the last man off, because there will be nobody...
Category: Articles
BROTHERS IN ARMS
On a popular Devon beach, unseasonably warm weather tempted people into the delights of the surf – and the dangers of the rip current …
While many families spent the afternoon carving Halloween pumpkins on 31 October 2015,...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Category: Advertisement
Four Attempts to Reach Life-Boat
AT 7.15 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the honorary secretary of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat station, Mr. Kieran O'Driscoll, was informed by Valentia Radio that the motor trawler Ros Airgead was aground on White...
Category: Services
Far and Wide
I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.. - View image in PDF
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At Tenby Branch's Agm the Crew Presented a Cheque for £1000 Towards the Cost of An Ilb Boathouse the Money Was Raised With Football Matches a Dance and a Spons
At Tenby branch's AGM the crew presented a cheque for £1,000 towards the cost of an ILB boathouse. The money was raised with football matches, a dance and a sponsored tow of the ILB on her launching trolley to Pembroke Dock and back... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs