On the night of Sunday May 28 Bridlington ILB launched to go to the yacht Pinkers ablaze in North Bay. The yacht's crew of nine had taken to their dinghy but could not propel her and both boats were drifting together with wind and tide.... - View image in PDF
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Thursday, the 5th day of March, 1903, His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
IT can scarcely fail to be interesting to such of our readers as take an interest in the subject of saving lives from shipwreck to know what is being done in furtherance of that humane object in other countries than our own. To learn how far...
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May, 1929.
No meeting of the Committee of Management was held in May owing to the General Election.
Thursday, 20th June, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
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XII.—GROOMSPORT.
The Florence, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, ! 10 oars. j A LIFE-BOAT was first stationed at this small i fishing port by the Institution in 1858; in 1867 it ! was replaced by the present boat, the...
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At Yeovilton Air Day last August, John King (r) chairman of Yeovil branch, put on display the working scale model which he had made himself of Poole's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Augustine Courtauld. The model, used for fund raising, had that... - View image in PDF
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AT the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1906, the United States Life-Saving Establishment comprised 278 stations, an increase of one station as compared with the total of the preceding year. All the stations were comprised in thirteen...
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AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian D class: October 27 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 27: August 8,11 (twice), 12, 21, 25, 31, September 3 and October 6 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 16 (twice), 23 (three times),...
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THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster on the 8th of March, 1955, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., Chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of...
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The Lancashire School's Symphony Orchestra were among passengers who had to be rescued from the ferry Winston Churchill when she ran aground in Gothenberg, Sweden, last summer. The conductor, Malcolm Doley, is pictured here with the... - View image in PDF
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