Ex-RNLI lifeboat ON/J60 in the hold of MV Andes on her way to Chile to take up station at Valparaiso.. - View image in PDF
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Rod looking out towards the rocks and gully between Little Fistral Bay and Fistral Beach. - View image in PDF
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New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.30 a.m. on ist October, 1966, four local fishing boats were still at sea between New Quay and Aberystwyth, when a storm was reported. The life-boat St.
Albans was launched at 9.42 in a gale...
An RNLI stall at Cheltenham charities gala market in the Town Hall last September raised £72.87. Members of Cheltenham branch, with their impressive stall and backcloth, (I. tor.) Dennis Hughes, Brian Lilley (chairman), Pam . Proctor... - View image in PDF
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Her Grace Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk.
patron of Linlehampton branch, presented a silver statuette to Mr R. J. C. Richards, a former treasurer of the branch, during Littlehampton's lifeboat ball last autumn. With them... - View image in PDF
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To many people, every lifeboat rescue is an act of heroism, carried out in a tortuous battle against the elements; to lifeboatmen, even the worst conditions are modestly played down...
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The first ever child of two ex-lifeboat crew members: Andrew James Louis Mitchell with his parents, David and Marjorie, on the day of his christening which was held, naturally enough, aboard Aberdeen's 54ft Arun class lifeboat BP Forties... - View image in PDF
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The death of the Duke of Kent in an air accident on August 2jth. is a very great loss to the life-boat service. Of all the members of the Royal Family who have been associated with it since its foundation none has taken a more generous and...
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A four-year-old girl, who was rescued in June, 1968, from the water at Bude, Cornwall, by one of the crew of the local IRB, afterwards returned to give a him a kiss of thanks.
Her rescuer was Mr. John Bate, aged 25, and the...
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Three hard-working supporters each receive a donation for the RNLI, and encouragement from Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Leader of the Opposition: Chelsea Pensioners (I. to r.) Frank Elverson, Topper Brown and Joe Marriott, who between them... - View image in PDF
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