There are 24 lifeboat stations around the coast of Ireland. Provisional figures for 1986 show that their 26 lifeboats (Dun Laoghaire and Howth have both D class and fast afloat lifeboats) launched 181 times rescuing 98 lives. The RNLI's...
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A Year of Conspicuous Services.
THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...
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Mr Alastair Barrow, chairman of the Reading RNLI young enthusiasts, writes that they are all about 15 years old and for the last two years have been trying to raise the £1,000 needed to buy a 15-foot ILB. In this connection a sponsored...
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Thursday, 6th Aug. 1857. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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JANUARY MEETING SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT RHOSNEIGIR RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY. About 11.30 in the morning of the 28th of August, 1941, a British bombing aeroplane crashed in the sea off Rhosneigir.
A gale was blowing from the...
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Jan. 6 —A. man put off in a boat from Tenby and rescued two of the crew of the fishing-b at Rajah, of Brixham, which stranded outride Tenby Harbour in a moderate gale from S.E.
and a very heavy sea.—Reward,...
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Redcar branch ladies guild's income for 1976 exceeded £4,000, all raised the hard way. None of the members has a car, so that large suitcases have to be heaved on and off buses in support of their various fund-raising efforts. In...
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A new member of the Fishponds branch of the R.N.L.I., Mr. Martin Rowe, organised a 'Guess my weight' competition, plus a skittles evening, at the Railway Hotel, Fishponds, near Bristol—and raised over...
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THE Hundred and Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 17th April, at 3 p.m.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
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When snow and ice accompany storm force winds endurance of a high order is asked of lifeboat crews; an active endurance which will enable them to maintain efficiency and bring a service to a successful conclusion even after many hours at sea...
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