Early this year the Failsworth branch of the R.N.L.I.
held a sponsored knit which raised £122. People were asked to knit nine-inch squares to make into blankets.
Altogether 500 squares were knitted... - View image in PDF
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Sir Alec Rose, who opened Southampton Boat Show in September, arrived with Lady Rose for the opening ceremony in Calshot lifeboat, the 40ft Keith Nelson Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde. The lifeboat was accompanied by the frigate... - View image in PDF
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(Right) White Rock Bowls Club raised £45 for Hastings lifeboat in a new annual pairs competition for the Walden and Weeks cups last autumn. The two cups were presented by Coxswain Joe Martin (centre) to Mr Compary (I.) and Mr Abbott... - View image in PDF
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Launches 64. Lives rescued 62.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between...
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The Five Survivors of the Ramsgate Crew Which Went Out To The " Indian Chief" In January 1881 From Left To Right T Friend (81 Years) T W Cooper (79 Years) H Belsey (82 Years) C Verrion (80 Years) D Be. - View image in PDF
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Zodiac Mark V ballast tanks attached to underside of floor.
They are shaped to fit beam and depth of the ILB's bottom. Sea water from a single scoop passes to the neoprene feeder pipes, which will lie on either side of... - View image in PDF
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Flowers all the way . . . a well dressing at the village of Dore (right), and (below) a model lifeboat 'floats'' on a rough, breaking sea of grey and white plants at Brentwood.. - View image in PDF
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The James and Catherine MacFarlane, a 36-foot Oakley reserve life-boat, was on display at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in July, 1966, while on its way to the Royal Show.. - View image in PDF
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An original cartoon by Mac of the Daily Mail was one of the lots at Truro branch's celebrity auction at New Tregye Hotel, Carnon Downs, last September, Some 200 letters written to famous people resulted in 84 buttons for auction. A... - View image in PDF
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John and Naomi Beattie, the last of Aberystwyth's five pulling and sailing lifeboats, on her way along the town front, drawn by willing helpers. She was on station from 1906 to 1932.. - View image in PDF
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