Three skin-divers who went into the sea at Thornwick Bay, Flamborough, were soon in trouble on 18th September, 1966, and had to be rescued. Here one of them is being hauled from rocks to the Flamborough life-boat. Assistance was also given... - View image in PDF
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North Berwick ILB Blue Peter III crew meet BBC 'Blue Peter' team when they received their 'Blue Peter' gold badges during the programme on December 20, 1973. (Left to right): Peter Purves, Benjamin Pearson, James Pearson,... - View image in PDF
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A German Messerschmitt pilot, his head bandaged because of an injury, being landed by the Dungeness lifeboat on October 7, 1940.. - View image in PDF
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3. Broadcaster Raymond Baxter (left), Honorary Admiral of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships, aboard his 30-footer L'Oragetn a crowded Dunkirk harbour. Mr Baxter is a Vice President of the RNLI and chairman of the public relations... - View image in PDF
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While Hartlepool's new 44' Waveney lifeboat The Scout was at Poole on trials before going on station, she took out on Poole Harbour four young local Scouts together with 84-year-old Andrew Primmer (centre of group above), who took... - View image in PDF
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1974: (below) . . . leaving St Paul's Cathedral after the Institution's 150th anniversary service of thanksgiving and dedication with Sir Hugh Wontner, Lord Mayor of London.. - View image in PDF
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A giant dummy cheque for £25,000 towards a replacement lifeboat at Sheringham came from the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. Commander Ralph Swann, a member and former Chairman of the Committee of Management (/.). accepted the... - View image in PDF
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(right) Lifeboats from the Relief Fleet visit a large number of stations and are often involved in services which earn awards for the lifeboat crews. The Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser was at Yarmouth on relief duty when coxswain Dave... - View image in PDF
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Aberdeen: Coxswain Albert Bird accepting North Sea rum from W.
Massie, area sales manager, MacKinlay-McPherson Ltd, on board the 54ft Arun BP Forties last February. Front row (I. to r.): Rear Admiral J. R. D. Nunn, the... - View image in PDF
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. . . First service of Aberdeen's new lifeboat, the 54' Arun BP Forties, on July 28, was to Peterhead fishing boat Westerdale, which reported flooding in her engine room. BP Forties reached Westerdale, 38 miles offshore east of... - View image in PDF
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