On a cool Sunday morning last September, RNLI North East region held its sponsored abseil from Number Bridge with some 200 supporters participating, including 100 members and friends from the 1 st Heckmondwike Scout group in West... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Joyce Bell - Fundraiser Mr John Chadwick - South West, former Surveyor of lifeboats Mr Eric Couling - Perranzabuloe branch committee member and former Honorary Secretary Mr Peter Davy - Hastings lifeboat station branch Honorary Vice...
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Contents Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 42 Easter SaiJing by Giles .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 43 XLI11 Modern Lifeboat Equipment 44 Number 445 . Profiles 48 Price 15p Central Appeals Committee .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 Chairman: Shoreline Section...
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(Inset) Only the human figure gives scale to the models.. - View image in PDF
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CAPTAIN A. G. COLE, R.N.R., honorary secretary of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat station from 1934 to 1952, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List of 1953.He was awarded the...
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The schooners William Thomson, of Dumfries, and Blossom, of Thurso, were in distress during a W.N.W.
gale in Scrabster Roads on the 13th Feb- ruary. The Polly life-boat went off, and brought safely ashore the crews,...
On the outside of the lifeboat station was a board recording the number of launches, people assisted and so on. 'That's the important one', said a crew member, pointing to 45 lives saved. Only the sharp shadow of his hand cast...
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Crew members pick the cruisersPoole lifeboat crew drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's lifeboat lottery at Poole lifeboat station on 27 April 2001.
The 93rd draw raised £245,000 and top prize, a luxury Canaries...
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By the death of Mrs. Ferris Tozer on 7th October the Institution lost one of its oldest and most energetic honorary workers. The Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Exeter, she had been a Life-boat worker for...
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Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.
Her...