Out of Wedlock! The oldest swinger in town, in the form of Fred Wedlock, who made the hit song a favourite with the medallionwielding young-at-heart, provided an evening of all-round entertainment for the regulars of The Cross Inn, near... - View image in PDF
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Injured crew member Gary Cook of the St Peter Port lifeboat is transferred from the RNAS Culdrose helicopter which had air-lifted him to Guernsey. Cook and fellow crew member Vincent Helmot had been injured when the mizzen mast of the... - View image in PDF
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Blue Peter I I I , the present 16' D class inshore lifeboat on summer exercise. - View image in PDF
Crew members are out on exercise every Sunday morning from the beginning of April until the end of October.. - View image in PDF
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Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.45 P-m- on 29th November, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there were three keel boats still at sea in conditions that were exceptionally bad and getting worse. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Torbay lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant returns to Torquay Harbour with the French racing yacht Corum and her 12-man crew in tow. The 45ft sloop had been in danger of foundering on the rocks off Hopes Nose after her rudder snapped in a...
Lt David Stogdon, MBE, former superintendent of depot, Cowes, joined the RNLI in 1952.. - View image in PDF
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Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, at the naming ceremony in 1966 of the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35). Here, smiling, she is shown presenting a box of chocolates to 4-year-old Alison Catherine Gibb who had just... - View image in PDF
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The same Life-boat was launched five days later in conjunction with her consort, the Robert and Mary Ellis, to the help of the s.s. Lady Grey of West Hartlepool, which had stranded on Whitby Bocks about half a mile from the West Pier head....
4. Richardson's Tubular Life-boat.—The next coast life-boat to be described is "the tubular." By the model of this boat, which is on the table, it will be seen that it is altogether different in principle to any other boat;...
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