The remains of Margate pier after the storm of 1977 — the badly damaged lifeboat station stands isolated between it and the shore. (Inset) The new station, built near the landward end of the old pier.. - View image in PDF
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A COLLECTION in aid of the Institution was made at the Silverstone Inter- national Trophy meeting on the 15th of May by kind permission of the Daily Express and the British Racing Drivers' Club. A total of £131 7s....
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SICK MAN FROM LIGHTVESSEL LANDED Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 7.50 on the morning of the 15th March, 1963, the local agent for the Irish Lights office informed the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the Barrels lightvessel was suffering...
A lifebelt cheque for £200 was paid into Banbury and District branch's bank account, the money being the profit from a Round Table dinner at Brackley at which Raymond Baxter, a member of the RNLI's Public Relations Committee was... - View image in PDF
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Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 10.45 on the night of the 7th of April, 1953, a wireless message was received stating that a passenger in the S.S. Cor- rientes, of Glasgow, was seriously ill with a perforated stomach ulcer andasking if the...
RAMSGATE.—On the 29th March, during strong gale from the E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, the barge Star of Peace, of London, was observed in a dangerous position riding at anchor in Pegwell Bay, all her sails having been blown away. The...
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BOAT BEING SWEPT OUT TO SEA Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of May, 1947, the coastguard reported that a sailing boat was becalmed and drifting off the breakwater. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at eleven o'...
Ron Parris f / j and Joe Salmon at work in the rigging loft on the RNLI stand: Ron weaves together the bow pudding while Joe helps one of the many interested visitors, first explaining the best knot to use in a given situation, then how to... - View image in PDF
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