A Christmas pantomime, 'Aladin', performed by the Little Theatre Charity Pantomime Company raised £2,000 for Teesmouth lifeboat. Mr R. E. H. Winterschladen, manager of the company, together with members of the cast, presented... - View image in PDF
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APRIL Launches 77. Lives rescued 131.
APRIL 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.53 P.M. on 31st March, a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham that a boat from H.M.S. Pomerol with men on board was adrift...
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Launches 29. Lives rescued 42.
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel...
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Coxswain Edward Parker, who died on i5th October, 1964, was a former coxswain of Margate life-boat who was awarded the D.S.M. for the part he and his crew played at Dunkirk when the Margate life-boat rescued over 600 British servicemen from...
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A bouquet for the Lady Mayoress of London, Lady Leaver, presented by Charlotte Elphick, niece of Mr John Norton (background r}, past Prime Warden of the Fishmonger's Company. With them are (I to r) the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the... - View image in PDF
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THE Thirty-first Annual Meeting of this national charity, incorporated by Act of Parliament, and supported by voluntary contributions, to assist destitute persons cast away upon our coasts, was held on the 25th May last at Burdett Hall, Lime...
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WHILE ON TRIALS Reserve life-boat. At n a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the reserve life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson put out from a ship- builders' yard at Rowhedge, Essex, in a light westerly breeze and a slight sea.
She was...
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Douglas lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1, launches on exercise. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the 'Isle of Man Examiner'. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer— from the painting by T. C. Dugdale, A.R.A., which hangs in the R.N.L.I. headquarters in London..
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Lady Sarah Fitzalan-Howard at the wheel of the new Selsey, Sussex, life-boat — a 48-foot 6-inch Oakleyaccompanied by Coxswain Ron Arnell.. - View image in PDF
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