During the Show, John Meakes, Managing Director of J. G. Meakes Ltd, presented a cheque for £105 to Captain Nigel Dixon, KN, Director of the RNLI. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily Express'. - View image in PDF
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Matchbox holders, cigarette boxes ami framed pictures of scenes based upon the Shetlands, including The Old Man of Hoy, all made from inatchsticks by Mrs D. Lainont, chairman of Crimxhy ladies' guild, have already raised £50 for the... - View image in PDF
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Photos, clockwise from top left of each page: RNLI staff wait at the College entrance for the first guests to arrive (Bella West •,'!iy); HM The Queen and Chairman Sir Jock Slater • ,ik.' their speeches (Beila West Photography); the... - View image in PDF
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During the London Boat Show Des Sleightholme, editor of Yachting Monthly, presented a painting to Coxswain Mike Scales (r) of St Peter Port lifeboat, Guernsey. The painting, which is by Laurence Baglev, standing on the left, is of the... - View image in PDF
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Wells-next-the-Sea: 0415 launch. The 37' Oakley reserve lifeboat, Calouste Gulbenkian, on temporary duty at Wells, was called out in the morning of July 10 after a 999 report of a missing swimmer. Together with Wells ILB and a helicopter... - View image in PDF
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Leslie Crowther (I.) and Robert Keegan were two of the guests at the RNLI gala at Ashburton Park on July 3, which was also attended by the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Croydon. During the afternoon, opened by Leslie Crowther, more than 5,000... - View image in PDF
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On the 31st January the schooner Susan, of Dublin, drove ashore in Dundrum Bay during a strong gale from S.S.E. The Newcastle life-boat went out, and succeeded in saving the vessel's crew of 4 men, afterwards landing them in safety..<...
The coxswain, motor mechanic and bowman visit London to receive medals (see page 705). - View image in PDF
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Lizard-Cadgwith: 52' Burnett lifeboat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) on exercise with an RNAS Culdrose Wessex Mk I helicopter off the Lizard. Two of the RN aircrew launched with the lifeboat; three lifeboatmen spent a short... - View image in PDF
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Inflatables were first introduced into service in 1962, and the current development is the Atlantic 21 rigid bottomed inshore rescue boat, here shown at speed. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of David Parker. - View image in PDF
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