All in a day's work...
Eastbourne crew's first aid examination was interrupted on 1 August by an urgent message over the VHP radio from the Dutch yacht Stresze. requesting medical assistance some ten miles SE of...
(Below) Basildon branch raised the funds to purchase the present Burnham-on-Crouch ILB—-and has already set as its target for the future a replacement boat. Last autumn Connor O'Brien, chairman of Basildon District Council, came to... - View image in PDF
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(Below) Dr Margaret Shimmin, honorary medical adviser, with (I.) Coxswain Kenneth Henry and (r.) Second Coxswain William Anderson. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Aberdeen Journals. - View image in PDF
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1st May to 31st July, 1935.
Greater London.
Prince of Wales Day for the life-boats was held in Greater London, on 21st May, in Acton and Chiswick, Ashford, Barnes, Battersea, Beckenham, Bermondsey,...
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Right: Mrs Aisher (chairman of the Central London committee), the Countess of Normanton (1991 ball chairman) and Mrs Christie (ball vice chairman).. - View image in PDF
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Left) Rigging loft, chargehand Ron Parris foreground.. - View image in PDF
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Lowestoft: A trimaran on passage from Wells to Ramsgate was reported making water fast on Sunday August 6. Lowestoft's 47ft Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick launched at 0554 and reached the casualty at 0750. Three people were taken... - View image in PDF
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The Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 lifeboat from Wells alongside the sinking Lancaster bomber on July 14, 1942, when the late Coxswain Theodor T. L. Neilson searched the wreck.
The painting was executed by L. F. Gilding...
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Fig. 2: Even a child's hollow ball, acting as a buoyant scupper valve, will, in time, make its impression on steel.. - View image in PDF
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