THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sustained a great loss by the death, on the 27th November last, of the late Captain CHETWYND, who had been a devoted and enthusiastic officer of the Committee for rather more than fourteen years....
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THE RIGHT Hos. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.C., M.P., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Right Hon.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P.
Seconded by The Right Hon.
the Earl of MOUNT...
Category: Meetings
THE Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, was closed at the end of October. The Institution had its own pavilion1 where it exhibited the motor life-boat of the 46-feet Watson cabin type which had been built on the...
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Category: Services
International hull scrubbing team: holidaymakers joined with Valentia, Kerry, crewmen to scrub and paint the underside of the hull of the Rowland Watts, the local 52-foot Barnett life-boat which was built in 1957. In the picture are (left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Richard Evans, of the Moelfre life-boat (left), Lt.-Cmdr. Harold Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R., the Institution's inspector of life-boats for the north west, and Coxswain Thomas Alcock, of the Holyhead life-boat, who between them were... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 29TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK, AND HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At four in the afternoon the Ardmore civic guards reported that a schooner, travelling west under sail, seemed to be on fire aft. A strong south-east wind was blowing,...
The Queen Mother leaving St Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor of London. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Keystone Press. - View image in PDF
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Harwich: The naming of the 44ft Waveney John Fison at Trinity House Pier. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Alfred H. Smith. - View image in PDF
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(above) Coxswain Graham Walker pictured during the naming ceremony of the station's Mersey Doris M. - View image in PDF
Mann of Ampthill, seen below on trials.. - View image in PDF
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