At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1899, the Eight Hon.
the Earl of DERBY, K.G-., G.C.B.,...
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At Newquay, Cornwall, Jubilee Carnival members of the ladies' guild wore their new 'uniforms'—red pleated skirts, white polo sweaters and gloves, and navy blazers and hats trimmed with red, white and blue ribbon; they were... - View image in PDF
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Former coxswain of Walton-on-the-Naze lifeboat, Mr Jonas Oxley, who has helped to save hundreds of lives at sea, is putting brush to canvas to record the work of the lifeboatmen. Early this year he completed a painting of Walton's first... - View image in PDF
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J.G. Graves of Sheffield was the first of the 26 Oakley Mk1 s to be built between 1958 and 1971 and is displayed on a typical launching carriage of the period. The class was designed to be self righting while retaining a high degree of... - View image in PDF
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GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
Poole ladies' guild started its tenth year with an exhibition of crafts at which there were demonstrations ranging from the making of Dorset buttons 13-year-old David Johns), to enamel craft I Mrs Renate Wadham). Peter Fallon shows his... - View image in PDF
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THE Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., told the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, that, following the serious deficit...
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Longhope, Orkneys-At 7.44p.m. on ist April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v.
Trust of Stromness was ashore at Haven, Stroma Island, Pentland Firth, and required the assistance of the life...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.28 a.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted off the S.W. Girdler buoy.
There was a fresh north-westerly wind, a moderate sea, and it was one hour...