ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its very clear and valuable Annual Report—in the shape of a Blue Book—relative to the shipping casualties which occur on or near the coasts o) the United Kingdom. The recent issue deals with the...
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la prepared to establish and maintain a Life-boat Station on any part of the coast of the United Kingdom where it can be shown, from previous disasters, that a Life-boat is required. It is requisite that there should be a sufficient number...
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THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING LIFEBOATS
26 January–22 April
Poole Museum, Dorset
Calm Before the Storm: The Art of Photographing Lifeboats celebrates the past and present of the RNLI. Glass plate images of...
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News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services 8 Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal winning rescues The annual meetings 2001 18 Chairman Peter Nicholson reports on a year of great achievement plus...
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• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
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From the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (USA) - THE OFFICIAL RAINBOW TROUT COLLECTOR PENKNIFE fe* Collector's Edition.
Handsomely Engraved.
Created by World-Renowned Wildlife Artist Rick Fields...
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Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V, with two ambulance crew aboard, takes part in the nighttime filming for the BBC's '999' series. - View image in PDF
Photo Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat launches on service during the months June, July and August, 1973 Aith, Shetland July 20.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 11, July 15 and August 15.
Amble, Northumberland July 4, 27 and August...
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The monumental glass goblet decorated by Miss Honoria Diana Marsh with a picture of the Weston-super-Mare life-boat and illustrated on page 12 of the June number of THE LIFE-BOAT has now been sold by the Institution.
The...
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BIDEFORD or Barnstaple Bay lies on the north coast of Devonshire, just within Luudy Island at the entrance of the Bristol Channel.
From the high projecting cliffs of Hartland Point, which rise 330 feet above the sea, a...
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