(Above) The 47ft Tyne class lifeboat arriving to go on display at Earls Court. - View image in PDF
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT MARYPORT OCTOBER 9TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. During the afternoon a strong southerly wind was blowing. Towards the end of the afternoon it veered to west-north-west, growing rapidly stronger, and just before dark it...
Sir Peter de la Billiere (extreme right) presents the Silk Cut National Rescue Award to Peter Bisson (right of group) and members of the St Peter Port lifeboat crew. - View image in PDF
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The Third Coxswain of the by now soap-free Douglas lifeboat Sir William Hillary is put aboard Martlet fo connect the tow.. - View image in PDF
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Geoff Mears, second coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, and Bill Parkhouse, area manager of Watney's, push over a column of two pence pieces at the Exeter Inn, Topsham.
Worth £515.96l/2 (£463.56 around the column in... - View image in PDF
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Ranugate, Kent.—During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February the fishing-vessel Iris of Lowestoft, carrying a crew of three hands, stranded in Pegwell Bay. Information that the vessel was in danger reached Ramsgate at 11.45 A.M., and the...
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Launch! Newhaven's housed slipway 47' Watson lifeboat Kathleen Mary launched on service 23 times during 1976, rescuing eight lives. She has now been replaced by the fast afloat 44' Waveney lifeboat Louis Marches!, gift of the... - View image in PDF
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the crew and those who back them up ashore by Campbell MacCallum 1 Coxswain David Cox 2 Second Coxswain Anthony Jordan 3 Offshore lifeboat crew 4 Lt David Case RNVR, station honorary secretary 5 Mrs David Case 6 Lt S. C. Long RNVR, deputy...
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On March 20 in a strong west-south-westerly breeze, Newhaven's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table went to the help of the barge Dunord which, on passage from Lowestoft to Poole, was aground one mile west ofBeachy Head... - View image in PDF
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Withernsea's new 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat is launched into the surf on exercise after her official service of dedication last June. photograph by courtesy of David E. Kirk. - View image in PDF
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