FEBRUARY 1993 Mrs Betty Foster, chairman of Driffield ladies' guild since 1983. She served as secretary for 16 years from 1967 and was awarded a Gold badge in 1991..
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As London Life-boat Day went ahead on 18th March, 1969, the search for the missing Longhope life-boat was announced on newspaper placards all over London.. - View image in PDF
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Weymoulh: The quay was crowded for the naming of the 54' Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell . . . photograph by courtesy of HMS Osprey. - View image in PDF
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Young people thought up all sorts of energetic ideas . . . a weird and wonderful fleet of London Rotaract Clubs' rafts make for the starting line.. - View image in PDF
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Spear 9m Police Launch Waveney 134m Self-righting Lifeboat & craft for the total coastguard coocepl Tracker 19-6m Air-Sea Rescue Launch Manager Military Sales, Fairey Marine Group, Hamble, Southampton.
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A celebration for some of the swimmers who successfully completed a relay swim across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle. It took the party of children and adults two hours and six minutes to swim the five miles, and they raised... - View image in PDF
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Thanks son - Al Murray (right! hands Ingram the £5.000 cheque for the RNU.. - View image in PDF
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On July 18, 1881, after Largs new boathouse, funded by a legacy from Miss Janet Brunion, had been opened by Mrs D. Jackson, the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat, the gift of the Independent Order of Foresters, was handed over by Mr T.... - View image in PDF
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TVS 'Coast to Coast' presenter Khalid Aziz and Claire Roberts show that two hands are better than one when it comes to negotiating a 'nerve tester'. Khalid Aziz had opened a fete at Overton Primary School on June 25 which... - View image in PDF
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Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...