Cwmbran branch and Parsley Hay country dance band recently organised a ceilidh at Cwmbran Rugby Club in aid of the RNLI. You can see from the above photograph that the band fully entered into the spirit of the occasion - but this comes as no... - View image in PDF
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The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has A Day Off. - View image in PDF
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Appledore, Devon. — At 7.7 in the evening of the 30th of November, 1948, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 1 was in difficulties on Bideford Bar and burning flares, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was...
Appledore's Tyne class George Gibson shows her way of dealing with a breaking sea on the port's notorious bar. - View image in PDF
by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
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Canoeists stranded THE WEATHER was cloudy, there was a fresh south-westerly breeze, force 5, and slight seas when Dover coastguard contacted the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station on the afternoon of Sunday June 9, 1985. Two...
The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...
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From left to right Crispin Williamson, Martin Ebdell, Joseph Purches and Richard Pearce with HRH The Duke of Kent after the presentation of their awards.. - View image in PDF
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Thank you! This letter is long overdue to express my thanks and admiration to the 'lads and lassies' of the RNLI in Kyle of Lochalsh. On 16 September last year I brought Morgana my Nauttcat 38 alongside the pontoon in Kyle to take on...
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Two rare postcards sen! in by Mr F. A. Fletcher of East Boldon, Tyne and Wear, co-author of two books on exhibitions, show a lifeboat on display at the Imperial Services Exhibition at Earls Court in 1913. The lifeboat was John and Amy, a... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 17TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A rowing boat was overdue and believed to be in difficulties, but later a report was received that the boat had been found and was safe.
Mr. P. E. W. Gellatly, the honorary secretary, went out in...