Mrs Anne Armstrong, United States Ambassador, was guest of honour at the reception at the Mansion House in the City of London on December I which launched the American! British lifeboat appeal. With her are seen (r. to I.) the Lord Mayor and... - View image in PDF
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Fonthe third year in succession Newport branch, Gwent, has raised tl ,000 at its annual cocktail party held in the Missions to Seamen on Newport Docks. At the tombola drum, Councillor Roy Morris, Mayor of Newport and president of the branch,... - View image in PDF
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At Yeovilton Air Day last August, John King (r) chairman of Yeovil branch, put on display the working scale model which he had made himself of Poole's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Augustine Courtauld. The model, used for fund raising, had that... - View image in PDF
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David Jones, RO(NW), presents a framed certificate of thanks to the Queen's Arms, Warwick-on-Eden, where over the past eight years £10,000 has been raised for Carlisle branch. (I to r): Dr John Southern, Carlisle branch honorary... - View image in PDF
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Mr. John Taylor, aged 16, of Cullercoats, North Shields, whose father, Mr. R. J. Taylor, is a leading member of the Cullercoats ILB and was an officer for 12 years in the conventional life-boat previously stationed there, has been accepted...
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Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor and navigator, made the award presentations at the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I, in London on 8th April 1970.
(1) Coxswain William Sheader (Scarborough) the silver medal, (2)... - View image in PDF
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Life-boat O.N. 729 - While on passage from Baltimore to Crosshaven on the loth August, 1967, the life-boat John R. Webb came up with a small rowing boat with four people on board.
They had lost an oar and were drifting...
St Helier: (right) The crew of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Thomas James King for the service on September 3, 1983, to the French yacht Cythara: (I to r) Crew Members William Hibbs and John Gray, Coxswain Michael Berry, who was awarded a bar to... - View image in PDF
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JOHN HUBBARD, of Caister, who died on the 24th February, was the last sur- vivor of the crew of the Caister pulling and sailing life-boat which was driven back on the breakers on Caister beach, when on her way to a ship in distress, in a...
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Down on the farm in Cheshire—but off on the milk round? The son of Hyde branch's honorary treasurer, Mrs Margaret Cheetham, sets off with the publicity D class inflatable lifeboat which, parked outside Hyde Town Hall where the branch was... - View image in PDF
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