St Peter Port lifeboat crew formed the guard of honour as Her Majesty The Queen embarked in her barge to rejoin HMY Britannia at the end of her visit to Guernsey on Wednesday June 28. Her Majesty spoke to every crew member, asking about the... - View image in PDF
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A winter sponsored raft race on the River Dee organised by the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club raised £380 for Aberdeen's new Arun lifeboat BP Forties. The 27 starters were sent on their way by Coxswain Albert Bird, who... - View image in PDF
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Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, M.P., Junior Minister, Board of Trade, visited the Walton life-boat station and the Harwich life-boat on 22nd February, 1968. Here he is talking to Coxswain-Mechanic P. Burwood of the 44-foot steel life-boat Margaret... - View image in PDF
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Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan was awarded the gold, silver and bronze medals for gallantry for services by Humber lifeboat in some of the worst storms of the past winter. These services were to Revi, Diana V and Savinesti respectively... - View image in PDF
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Pictured doing a spot of 'panic buying' after completing the service to the Greek tanker Kithnos are Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan (fourth right) and other members of the Humber crew. photograph by courtesy of Grimsby Evening... - View image in PDF
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One of the delightful watercolours specially commissioned for Brian Martin's Tales of Time and Tide'. This is the Lowestoft lifeboat sucesfully rescuing a cow - one of the tales recounted by Tommy Knott..
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Three stages in the service by the Dungeness life-boat in June, 1966, to the sloop Idle Moment after she had spent an anxious night riding out a storm—the life-boat alongside the sloop, the sloop safe in Folkestone harbour, and Coxswain T. R... - View image in PDF
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PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The 30-feet Life-boat on this station has been re- placed by a new and larger boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, double banked. The cost of the new boat, with its transporting carriage, has been...
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The proprietor of Josephine's in St. Giles Street, Northampton, Mr. John Warren, who is a member of the Y.L. A., arranged a fashion parade in aid of the R.N.L.I. The fashion parade was held in the showrooms of Grose Ltd., car... - View image in PDF
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Front Row, left to right. A Dutch Coxswain, Mr. J. Lels (President of the South Holland Society). Captain Rowley, Captain Day, Mr. Tegelberj. M. Granion de Lepiney, Mr George F. Shee. Behind M. de Lepiney is M. de Booy.. - View image in PDF
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