Atlantic College Atlantic College is a remarkable place in many respects. Housed in St Donat's Castle, built in the fifteenth century, it is perched on rocky slopes which tumble down to the waters of the Bristol Channel. Within the...
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THE night of the 27th of September, 1951, was very dark and overcast at St. Helier, in Jersey. A fresh wind was blowing from the south-south- west; there was a swell rising from six to eight feet; and heavy storms of rain made visibility...
Category: Services
To chronicle at the close of each succeed- ing year the notable events which have marked its course, is a very natural and in many ways a useful and profitable duty for statisticians to carry out; and the past year has been anything but un-...
Category: Articles
Annual Meetings: Financial Branches and Guilds.
CHELTENHAM.—On 18th July, Mrs.
Richard Davies, Chairman, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
FEBRUARY 22ND. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
An unknown vessel had been sunk by enemy action. Only wreckage was found by the life-boat, but some survivors were picked up by an air-sea rescue launch- Rewards, £16 9s..
• Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, was a man of considerable vision who always pursued his ideas relentlessly, though some of his schemes were not realised until after his death. He_ proposed the formation of an international...
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THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every Shipwrecked Person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
Category: Advertisement
Friday, 23rd June, 1922.
The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND £ s....
Category: Committee
The Service to the Lee Bay.
ON 11th January of this year the motor life-boat at Appledore (Devon) was launched in a whole gale to the help of the motor fishing boat Lee Bay, of Ilfracombe, and rescued her crew of three men...
Category: Services
There was an expectant buzz around the Scarborough boathouse as the crowd awaited the arrival of HRH The Duchess of Kent in the warm, late summer sunshine on 9 September 1992. In a lively and enthusiastic speech by branch president Gilbert...
Category: Inaugurations