THIS Committee was appointed on the 2nd of May last to enquire into the existing laws and regulations regarding boats, life-buoys and other life-saving gear required to be carried by British merchant ships, and to report if any amendments...
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The ketch Sualidaz under tow by the new FAB 3 prototype off Portland Bill. The service was the first carried out by the new boat, which was on familiarisation trials at the time. - View image in PDF
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Greater London District.
ACTON.—Address to Chiswick Brotherhood and Sisterhood by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management.
CARSHALTON.—Drawing-room Meeting at Wallington, given by...
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FOR THE FIRST TIME for ten years and only the sixth time since the end of World War II 32 years ago the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry has been awarded.
The service which earned Keith Bower of Torbay this...
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Borth: Helmsman Ronald Davies was accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue on August 18 of two people trapped by the tide at the foot of cliffs. The photograph shows the area at low tide: x marks the position... - View image in PDF
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The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held their annual lifeboat ball at the Ocean Room, Gorleston-on-Sea. Among the 530 guests were Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI, accompanied by his wife Anne, together with the Mayor... - View image in PDF
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Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel by Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 305.) tells in the first of two volumes the story of the English life- boats in those waters.
Of the life-boat stations detailed in...
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Right Crew members draw the winners for the 83rd national lifeboat lottery assisted by Julia Fish, lottery development officer.. - View image in PDF
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The Margate, Kent, 1KB assisting the m.f.v. Jaroma on 24th August, 1969, when she ran aground on a sand bank. Four men were taken off her and the service in which the Margate life-boat also took part is described on this. - View image in PDF
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THE machinery of modern civilization is so complicated, and moves, withal, so smoothly and silently, that the majority of people never give a thought to its intricacies, or to the constant effort and strain which the smooth working...
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