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RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
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Shirley recognised at Trearddur Bay
Shirley Rogerson, awarded the British Empire Medal in HM The...
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Marie May (1)
Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).
At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...
Great Rail Journeys
The Coastal Pacific From Canada to California along the Pacific Coast Travel with the UK's leading specialist in holidays by rail on this fantastic 16-day rail tour from Vancouver to San Diego near the Mexican border.
A...
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Great Rail Journeys
mvitmim WKiRumm Eastern & Oriental Express - Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore by train — Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialists on this fascinating two-week tour of southeast Asia.
A friendly and...
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Night Passage By Wallace Lister Barber
SARAH TOWNSEND poRRiTT, stationed at Lytham-St Anne's, is a 46' 9" Watson lifeboat with a beam of 12' 9" and displacement of 24 tons 9 cwt. She was built in 1951 and as lifeboats go she is considered to be getting on in...
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Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEGUARDS Thanks on Vellum Lifeguard Mirk John ion lor his 'courage, determination in heavy surf conditions ar d professional efficiency ' Chiel Executive's LeTter of Thanks Lifeguard Alan Wheeler for tus 'courage,...
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Books
• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...
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A Gallant Coxswain
THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...
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Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Xii—Trials
THROUGHOUT HER BUILDING a lifeboat is under the regular scrutiny of the RNLI's own hull, machinery and electronics overseers; she also receives periodic visits by Lloyd's Register of Shipping surveyors and an exceptionally high...
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On the Night of 14Th October Last Year the Buckle, Banffshire, Life-Boat Laura Moncur and a Shackleton Mark 3 of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Took Part In a Search and Rescue Exercise. T
On the night of 14th October last year the Buckle, Banffshire, life-boat Laura Moncur and a Shackleton Mark 3 of No.
120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, took part in a search and rescue exercise. The life-boat carried a second... - View image in PDF
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