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Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
SEPTEMBER 7th, 1938, will be the hundredth anniversary of the rescue by Grace Darling and her father William Darling, of the Longstone Lighthouse, Northumberland, of the nine survivors of the Dundee steamer Forfarshire. The Institution has...
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Rescue
rescue Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from 2007 from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. See pages 20–27 for rescues marked . 1 freeD frOm rOPeS aS water riSeS A...
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In Memory of a Ship's Cat
THE Institution has received a gift of £l 6s. from H.M.S. Stork, stationed at Penang, the result of a collection made among the ship's company in memory of the ship's cat, Tiger, which was lost overboard at sea..
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A Royal Naval Air Service Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 21ST. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. A Royal Naval Air Service aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a small boat from the shore.
- Rewards, £13 13s. (See Easthaven, “Services by Shore-boats...
Tea Money from the Home Guard.
Major P. S. Watkins, D.S.O., vice-president of the Southborough and District Branch, in Kent, makes tea in the early mornings, for members of the Home Guard who sleep at his house. In return they contribute to the Life-boat Service. He has...
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Three Stages In the Service By the Dungeness Life-Boat In June, 1966, to the Sloop Idle Moment After She Had Spent An Anxious Night Riding Out a Storm—
Three stages in the service by the Dungeness life-boat in June, 1966, to the sloop Idle Moment after she had spent an anxious night riding out a storm—the life-boat alongside the sloop, the sloop safe in Folkestone harbour, and Coxswain T. R... - View image in PDF
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A Ketch and the Shrimper Marjorie
At about 10 A.M. on the 20th April, a ketch was seen to miss stays and run aground on Taylors Bank, and as the cone had just been hoisted denoting a gale might be expected, the Life-boat John andHenrietta was launched and proceeded to...
Mjkmtell C O G N a C
MA 1 11 The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in...
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Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition for Elementary Schools
IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of .the: Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout...
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A Donor at the Wheel
Miss Paterson, of Paisley, in her life-boat, Jeanie Speirs, at Portpatrick. - View image in PDF
(See page 399, and for another photograph of the !ife-boat, page 373.). - View image in PDF
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