APRIL 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 3.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported two small boats drifting three miles south-west of the South Stack. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 4.10 in a light...
Mrs Bessie Evans, president of New Quay ladies' guild. She joined the branch in 1976, was its honorary treasurer from 1977 to 1991 when she was appointed president. Mrs Evans was awarded a Silver badge in 1987..
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Mrs Doreen Rash, better known as Doreen Wallace the author, is also a painter. Last July Mrs Rash, now in her 87th year, staged an exhibition of her unframed sketches at her home in Norfolk and by their sale raised £140 for Diss... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Joan Field, president of Bridlington lifeboat luncheon club from 1981 to 1984. Mrs Field had been a member of the club since the 1960s and she had served as assistant honorary secretary from 1976 to 1977, speaker secretary from 1977 to...
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MARCH 1988: Mrs Marjorie Lambert, committee member and patron of Birmingham Branch from 1985 to 1988. She had previously been vice chairman of the Edgbaston and Harborne Ladies' Guild until 1971, becoming chairman from 1971 to 1975 and...
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The Sumner Lifeboat Institution, New Zealand, operates an ex-RNLI 10.9m Liverpool class lifeboat, Rescue III, and a fast jet inshore boat. Aid II. When a call-out comes, both lifeboats, a control tower and a mobile base in a Landrover are... - View image in PDF
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John McCarthy presents RNLI video Journalist and broadcaster, John McCarthy, presents the new RNLI video which is being launched at the London International Boat Show at Earl's Court this month. John, embarked on a circumnavigation of...
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Erin with his owner, local pub landlord Max Denning /left}, and his dog-walkers Jo Brand and Nick Wame. - View image in PDF
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DURING 1937 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 21 British vessels.
Four of these services were by France, 2 by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, 1 by Norway and 15 by the United...
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THE LOSS of the whole crew of eight of the Longhope life-boat, which capsized on the evening of 17th March, 1969, was reported in the June number of THE LIFE-BOAT. When the June number went to press the circumstances attending the disaster...
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