THIS year the Institution will for the first time have a choice of two Christ- mas cards for sale, in addition to pocket calendars.
One card is a reproduction of a painting by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., which depicts the...
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. . . and farewell to the 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat, a class which has served the RNLI, both as a pulling and sailing lifeboat and then as a motor lifeboat, since the mid 1800s. Grace Darling (below), built in 1954, the last of her... - View image in PDF
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Jan. 11.—Voted the Silver Medal to Mr.
WILLIAM PENROSE, and the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum and framed, to his brothers Messrs. THOMAS and HENRY PENROSE for their very gallant but unsuccessful attempt to...
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FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Gal way Bay. At 1.30 on the morning of the 17th April, 1963, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler needed help ten miles south-west of North Aran light. The life-boat...
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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IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
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FOR SWIMMERS
Swell
by Jenny Landreth
For centuries, women in the water fell into three categories: mermaids luring sailors to their doom, witches being dunked, and those of questionable moral fibre. This fun...
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The unveiling of the memorial by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, Air Marshal Ian Macfadyen (pictured to the left of sculpture, at the front).
Also pictured (from left to right) is David Cretney... - View image in PDF
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Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the deration and...
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Blowing up a Storm The RNLI's Storm Force junior club will be known to a much wider audience now, following the naming of an InterCity 125 locomotive 'Storm Force' on Saturday 27 April.
The ceremony was held at...
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