Thev met at Cowes: (I to r) Michael Butler (Cowes base). Helmsman Frank Ditnsler (Havling Island). Lt-Cdr Michael Woodroffe, staff officer operations (1), Helmsman John Hodder (Lyine Regis), Michael Brinton. depute superintendent of depot... - View image in PDF
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Brian Socket! is taking a bath around the racing circuit at Lydden, Kent. The Person Powered Push which entailed people from the Dover area pulling or pushing peculiar articles around the circuit brought in £1,098.60 for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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At their Army Air Day 1973 last July at their base in Middle Wallop, Hampshire, the Army Air Corps raised more than £2,000 for the RNLI. The money is to be used at the inshore lifeboat station, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. In appreciation... - View image in PDF
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_ _ Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork. — At 3.20 A.M. on the 16th September, 1939, a telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life-Saving Service that the motor vessel Cheyenne, a tanker of Newcastle, had been sunk by enemy...
Mr R. A. Davies, chairman of Hale Bams branch from 1975 to 1988..
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Ernest and Mable at Weymouth The C1.8m Severn class lifeboat has been named after the parents of the main donor, Miss Beryl Taylor of Surrey. Additional funding has been provided by a bequest from Eileen Cressy, a gift in memory of Chester... - View image in PDF
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Above - George begins his thorough inspection of Bude's D class lifeboat while Andrew Woods (inset) takes a wire brush and some WD40 to the fire extinguisher.. - View image in PDF
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Blue Peter I crew past and present: (left to right) Peter Cheney, station branch chairman and original station honorary secretary; with original crew members, John Pe/ham, Roy Cole and George Moore: Gerry Prest (centre), fundraising branch... - View image in PDF
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