NOVEMBER 20TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 11.30 in the morning the Whitby coastguard passed on a message from the Kettleness coastguard that three motor fishing vessels, two miles north east of...
Mr. David Miles (left), manager of the 'Duke of York', Dering Street, London, led a sponsored shave in aid of the R.N.L.I. He and his two barmen, Mr. Alan Hart and Mr. Sam Weaver, grew moustaches and beards for one month and then had... - View image in PDF
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(Right) Invited guests were joined by many other spectators aboard the island's launches. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of F. E. Gibson. - View image in PDF
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Just seconds to spare as Cleethorpe's D class lifeboat races through the finishing gate. - View image in PDF
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Below: Celebrity autographs - fresh from appearances on the small screen Salcombe coxswain Frank Smith signs copies of a print of the Salcombe lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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The crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37) can only watch as the trawler Tennetje sinks off Start Point, Devon on 17 July 1988.
The lifeboat had been called at 0605 after part of Tennetje's... - View image in PDF
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A smashing time! Watched by crew members of the Aberdeen lifeboat, Alister Yorston, district manager of United Rum Merchants and Norman Trewren, coxswain, broke open pub collection bottles for the RNLI. Aberdeen-based Watsons Rum has built... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 27TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
A heavy west-by-north wind rose, with a rough sea, while two motor fishing cobles.
Joan and Mary and Jean and Barbara were at sea, and it was decided to send out the motor...
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