ALTHOUGH I had been to Padstow, Cornwall, years ago on holiday, the visit I paid in July this year for the purpose of this article was the first since then, I found, as before, a bustling village in high summer and, some miles way, the...
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Gregory Conneely, chairman of Galway and Aran Fishermen's Co-Operative Society, presents a cheque for £1,500, the result of a proportion of its fish auction being made over to the RNLI. (1. to r.) Noel Mickey, chairman of Galway... - View image in PDF
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IN the course of two months the Institution has received cheques for £500 from the colonel at Calais commanding J12 Transit Camp of the British Forces in France. They come with the message: " On behalf of all troops who have passed...
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(Right) His Royal Highness studied the medal book with Alan Neal, assistant secretary (operations division), and (below, right) was shown round the drawing office by Symington Macdonald, chief staff officer (technical).. - View image in PDF
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A series of unusual photographs taken on the Goodwin Sands in January, 1948. Geologists have found that the Goodwins consist of an 80 foot depth of sand, coal, shells and coral resting on a bed of soft chalk. This mixture is in constant... - View image in PDF
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The many aspects of training courses. Top Classroom sessions prepare the crews for their practical work afloat.
Assistant Training Officer Edward Mallinson (standing) runs through a chartwork refresher with some of the St... - View image in PDF
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At daybreak on the 29th January, the French lugger La Maria Franyois, Le Pere Samson, was observed in a perilous position in St. Austell's Bay, with a flag of distress flying, the wind blowing a gale from S. by W. The Fowey life-boat was...
LIST [OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1908) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal life-saving.
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On the 25th October the Christopher Ludlow Life-boat of this station was enabled to render valuable assistance to the brigantine Richard Thompson, of Belfast, which had •gone on Dungarvan Bar during a fresh breeze at S.S.W. The sea broke...
At 1.15 in the afternoon of 5th January, when a whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with rain and a heavy sea, the Coxswain noticed that the s.s. Hawthorn, of Liverpool, which was at anchor in Ramsey Bay, was signalling that a doctor was wanted...