Fig 3: Looking up into the starboard propeller tunnel, lower end of rectangular propeller freeing scupper can be seen clearly and also, further forward, the hole which will take the stern tube for the propeller shaft. Outboard of the tunnel... - View image in PDF
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Watched by Commander E. F. Pritchard, Jack Sims and George Mobbs at Twickenham lifeboat ball, the chairman of the branch, Robert Tough, receives donation cheques from representatives of the Scout Association (Mr Stevens, £850), the... - View image in PDF
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Falmouth (below): The warm, sunny July weather gave way to blustery winds and an overcast sky for the annual Falmouth lifeboat service at Custom House Quay on the evening of Sunday July 31.
Three hundred people gathered on... - View image in PDF
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In June a Spanish life-boat delegation, led by the Conde de Toreno, president of the Spanish Red Cross Society, visited England. Here the party is pictured at Life-boat House, London, with (left to right) Captain Nigel Dixon, Secretary of... - View image in PDF
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Huniher's most fa mini x CO.V.VM ain, Mr Robert Cross (right) on a visit to the Humber station in 1960 with (centre) th.' late Admiral Sir William Slayter, KCB, DSO, DSC, KNLI Committee of Management, and Coxswain Superintendent... - View image in PDF
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Six men were rescued by breeches buoy from the Dutch coaster Jan Brons which ran aground on Ardnamult Head in south-westerly gales on March I I , 1964. Stephen Whittle, then second coxswain, and Assistant Mechanic John Power volunteered to... - View image in PDF
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Garry Windehunk—you can only see his legs—is not only supporting a world record number of 76 lyres tit a garage in Ramsey, his weightlifting feat is also supporting the Mountbatten of Burma lifeboat appeal to the tune of £500 in... - View image in PDF
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Aldeburgh: When, at low water on August 17, 1977, the 42' Beach lifeboat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald could not clear the beach on launching, Aldeburgh''s D class ILB was launched in an easterly near gale to go to the help of... - View image in PDF
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Off the Cornish coast: The Lizard-Cadgwith's 52ft Barnett lifeboat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No 33) on exercise with a Wessex helicopter from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose.
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'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
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