OCTOBER 1990 RearAdmiral Sir Edmund Irving KBE CB, elected to the Committee of Management in 1965 (having previously served as an ex-officio member from 1960 to 1966 when Hydrographer of the Navy). Admiral Irving was appointed a...
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was paid out in 1949.
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32 9 0 _ _ ___i— _ New Construction.
39 9 10 _» _M _ B« M.I __-...
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How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1950.
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18 7 6 M. _M _HM Subscriptions, Dona- tions, Collecting, Boxes.
11 10 8 _ _...
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IN two instances recently the indomitable courage of the British Life-boatman has been recognised and suitably rewarded by governments of the respective countries to which the distressed vessels belonged.
The first case...
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Morning: Harold Appleton, one of the Shoreline Bout Show team, talking to Crew Member Lex Fay of Blyth.. - View image in PDF
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When the maroons are fired at Ilfracombe, on the North Devon Coast, everyone has a good chance of seeing the new life-boat, Lloyd's II, which is kept in the life-boat house below Lantern Hill, going on its carriage through the heart of...
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The Story of a Whitby Rescue.
[The following story of a family's gratitude to the Life-boat Service appeared in the " Yorkshire Evening Post " on 5th September last, from the paper's special...
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The Whitby No 2 Pulling And'sailing Life-Boat on the Flooded Road Below Ruswarp Vicarage On Her Way To The Rescue of Two Women About Half A Mile Upstream. - View image in PDF
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Not enough water to use the engine as wet, tired lifeboatmen wade through the steels of the flooded North Wales towns. (Photo The Guardian). - View image in PDF
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Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...