H.M. THE KING and ELM. The Queen both seat special gifts in November last to show their interest in the pro- gress of the Motor Life-boat Scheme.
* * * * The 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders have sent...
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(below) Miss Sylvia Clarke names the relief fleet D class lifeboat Sea Ranger under the watchful eye of Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing.. - View image in PDF
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Wells-next-the-Sea 's harbour almost dries out at low water. The network of channels leading to the quay can clearly be seen in this aerial view. - View image in PDF
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At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...
Category: Services
Leaving Newlyn Harbour on her passage from Cowes to her station.. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Hugh Nelson (centre) and the Donaghadee crew who took part in the service to Princess Victoria on January 31, 1953. Thirty-four lives were saved by Donaghadee and Portpatrick lifeboats in winds up to hurricane... - View image in PDF
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Tim Batstone passes Land's End on his record-breaking 1,777 mile journey round Britain. - View image in PDF
Longships Lighthouse is in the background. The circumnavigation took him 70 days in all.. - View image in PDF
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Riddled ventilating pipe from the Eastbourne lifeboat Jane Holland after visiting Dunkirk in 1940, and (below) special war artist Bryan de Grineau's impression of the Dunkirk evacuation in full swing. An RNLI lifeboat is... - View image in PDF
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The Scarborough 37-foot Oakley life-boat /. G. Groves of Sheffield whose coxswain recently wrote to Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A.,the life-boat designer, who fast year retired from full-time service with the Institution, to tell him... - View image in PDF
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