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Progressing To The Role Of Deck Officer (pictured)
Unsurprisingly, the sea later beckoned and, in 1955, Robert joined the Merchant Navy as a cadet and served as an apprentice, progressing to the role of deck officer (pictured).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dublin Port and Docks Board Hopper No. 17
DECEMBER 18TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At about 2.15 in the afternoon the Bailey Lighthouse reported that the Dublin Port and Docks Board Hopper No. 17 was adrift, bearing north-west from the lighthouse.
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1857
Moved by Rear-Admiral the Earl TALBOT, C.B., and seconded by MONTAGUE GORE, Esq.,— 1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
Moved by Captain JOHN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy-Master of the Trinity House, and...
Category: Meetings
The Fishwives of Cullercoats. Over £500 Collected In Five Years
THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...
Category: Articles
The Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891. (Second Article.)
THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
Category: Articles
Century Life-Boat Day In London
CENTURY Life-boat Day was held on 20th May, in nearly eighty of the main boroughs and urban districts of Greater London, and the Institution had the generous help of both the Duke and Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life...
Category: Articles
The Llaethliw, and Schooner John Stonard, and Brigantine Xanthus
Shortly after 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 5th December, a signal of distress was seen flying from a schooner at anchor in the bay. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the Llaethliw, of...
New President of the Swedish Life-Boat Society
Mr. Edvard Lithander, President of the Swedish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked, who was one of the Swedish delegates at the International Life-boat Conference in London in 1924, has been compelled through pressure of business and...
Category: Articles
A New Book on the Life-Boat Service
To interest the youth of our nation in the sea that encompasses their island— its traffic, its secrets, its hazards—is always timely. To do so in the manner of Malcolm Saville's book, The Adven- ture of the Life-boat Semice (Macdonald,...
Category: Articles
The Scene In Old Market Square Nottingham As the Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Mrs 1 F Matthews Welcomed Everyone to the Handing Over Ceremony of Rnlb Nottinghamshir
The scene in Old Market Square, Nottingham, as the Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Mrs 1. F.
Matthews, welcomed everyone to the handing over ceremony of RNLB Nottinghamshire.
photograph by courtesy of Jeff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs