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G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e l i n e • S t o r m F o r c e Positive Reactions There's an old saying: 'It only takes one spark to start a fire.' Well, the spark in this case was the Spring issue'spiece 'Moving with the...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
To organise a massive cheese and wine evening with more than 200 guests is no mean achievement when you are over eighty, confined to a wheel-chair and reliant on the telephone for making all arrangements. Nevertheless, the irrepressible Mrs...
Category: Donations
(Below) Ken Voice Coxswain of Shoreham Lifeboat Received a Cheque for £625 on January 26 from Mrs Joan Hilton Chief Ranger of the Court Sussex Elm Independe
(Below) Ken Voice, coxswain of Shoreham lifeboat, received a cheque for £625 on January 26 from Mrs Joan Hilton, chief ranger of the Court Sussex Elm, Independent Order of Foresters. The money was raised by court members during... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Lifeboat Dedications Glyn Williams Dos (Wales) Extreme Right at the Service of Dedication Attended By About 2000 People of a New Atlantic 21 Blue Peter II
Inshore lifeboat dedications . . . Glyn Williams, DOS (Wales), extreme right, at the service of dedication, attended by about 2,000 people, of a new Atlantic 21, Blue Peter II, at Beaumaris on Sunday, August 29, 1976. Standing with him are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Family Occasion at West Mersea:
A family occasion at West Mersea: On July 31 Michael Pennell (third from I), divisional inspector for the South East, made presentations to a father and his two sons for their long service to the RNLI. (I to r) Albert Clarke received a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Prince of Wales at the Bradford Matinee
THE Prince of Wales gave yet another proof of his deep personal interest in the work of the Institution and its Branches when he visited Bradford on 13th November. His visit was for the purpose of opening the new buildings of the Chamber of...
Category: Articles
Left the Dutch Have Developed a 106M Rigid Inflatable
Left. The Dutch have developed a 10.6m rigid inflatable which has been in service since October 1990. The Valentijn class is jet powered and steered by 'buckets' over the outlets. She has been designed specifically lor the shallow... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue By Breeches Buoy from a Trawler
At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...
Category: Services
And (Left) the Following Week Was Taken to Sea By Crew Members Peter Evans (I) and John Clowes for An Inspection of the River As Part of a Drive to Improve Local Lifesaving
and (left) the following week was taken to sea by Crew Members Peter Evans (I.) and John Clowes for an inspection of the river as part of a drive to improve local lifesaving facilities.. - View image in PDF
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Some of the 16 Rescued Seamen Shake the Hand of Coxswain Brian Bevan
Some of the 16 rescued seamen shake the hand of Coxswain Brian Bevan as they go ashore from the Humber lifeboat Kenneth The/wall. They had been taken off the blazing tanker Phillips Oklahoma in what Coxswain Bevan described as 'the worst... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs