A Yokel's Fair organised last July by customers of the Black Horse, Byworth, Petworth— licensee John Waldy—raised t450 for the RNLl. Held in the grounds of the inn and Roland Sailer's adjoining field, the programme included a... - View image in PDF
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OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tkefgures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 330-341.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 166 Drogheda, Ireland, 264. Lizard, Cornwall, 127. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks, 31....
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Three triumphant waves from (I to r) Dawn Moore, her husband Jon and Maggie Annat. They have just completed a remarkable 22 week circumnavigation of Britain by canoe. All three are instructors at Outward Bound Wales at Aberdovey and Dawn and... - View image in PDF
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Late on the aflernocn of August 8, the Needles Coastguard alerted the Search ami Rescue Flight, HMS Daedalus, that a boat was in difficulties in Totland Bay, Isle of Wight. An aircraft was scrambled to go to the scene. However, a helicopter... - View image in PDF
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During December, 19-17, life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 24 lives.
NO PETROL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 2nd of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small...
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A profit of £500 was the result of a Cockney night held by Enfield and District branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters.
The picture shows Lord Graham of Edmonton (r) and the High Chief Ranger of the Foresters Mr... - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 130 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 39 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 15th, 1936 64,658 H.M. King Edward VII, Patron of the...
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Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI, (left) and the managing director of Laing's, Trevor Berry, lay the highest section of concrete to mark the topping-out of the RNLI's new headquarters building. (Photo Southern Newspapers).<... - View image in PDF
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Moved by Rear-Admiral the Earl TALBOT, C.B., and seconded by MONTAGUE GORE, Esq.,— 1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
Moved by Captain JOHN SHEPHERD, H.C.S., Deputy-Master of the Trinity House, and...
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Norman Clark (1902-1920), perhaps one of the best loved of North Berwick's pulling ami sailing lifeboats, on winter service (left). Here can be seen something of the wild fury of which the sea is capable on this rockv shore.. - View image in PDF
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