Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed Honor- ary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on Vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MRS....
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THE British and Norwegian crews of the whaling ships Southern Em- press and Southern Princess, on their return from their whaling season in the Antarctic, sent the Institution £51 2s. 3d..
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THE Return of the Registrar-general of Seamen, recently published, shows that during the past year 413,972 vessels—representing a tonnage of nearly 62 millions— entered inwards and cleared outwards from British ports. The estimated value of...
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Aberdeen.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 9th of November, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Solskin, of Oslo, needed help sixty miles east of Tod Head. At 12.44 the no. 1 life-boat Hilton Briggs put out. There was a heavy...
The crew at Chiswick on the River Thames is one of our busiest – and in October 2016 they knew it wouldn’t be long before they were called on for the 3,000th time. But who would need their help?
Crew Members Gavin Simmons...
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(The figures refer to the numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 120. Dartmouth, the Karl of, and Hooper, Miss, 265. [142 Peach, Misses Frances and A Friend, 240. his Tenantry, 159. lope, Rev ...
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HAULING-OFF WAKPS TO LIFE-BOATS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, THE Committee of the Southwold Branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION have requested me to seek, through the medium...
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High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
of getting a survivor directly out of the water. How many men does it take to get one man out of the water? Jones: We picked up two men a month ago, and one of them was completely unconscious. We put the scrambling net down; two men went...
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CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK
Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...
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