Scene from the Boxing Day life-boat ball on Granada Television's 'Coronation Street'. On the left, Doris Speed who plays Annie Walker; on the right, David Davies.. - View image in PDF
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As London Life-boat Day went ahead on 18th March, 1969, the search for the missing Longhope life-boat was announced on newspaper placards all over London.. - View image in PDF
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Opening of the new headquarters: The President, HRH The Duke of Kent, with (I. to r.) the Director, Captain Nigel Dixon, and the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant.
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The Duke of Atholl, a Deputy Chairman of the RNLI, called at three lifeboat stations, Skegness, Withernsea and Humber, and met many voluntary fund raisers when he visited the North East in March. On his tour, starting from district HQ and... - View image in PDF
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Shielding themselves from the cold and wet, determined and enthusiastic RNLI supporters assemble for the naming ceremony of the Lady of Hilbre by HRH The Duke of Kent. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At nine at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel with her engine broken down was lying to the north-west of Buckie, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched. A...
Thursday, 9th February, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the St. Ives, Cornwall, station be temporarily closed.
Resolved that a joint meeting of the boat and...
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On the 10th Oc- tober a three-masted schooner was seen at the entrance to the River Tay with a signal of distress flying, the wind blowing a. gale from S.E., with a high sea running. The steam-tug Sampson being sent from Dundee to her aid,...
Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the RNLI, seen on the occasion of his visit to Flamborough in December. The retiring coxswain of the Flamborough life-boat, Dick Cowling, is on the left of the picture. Albert Duke, the... - View image in PDF
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had been recovered by a helicopter, also called out. His three companions had managed to struggle ashore safely. The ILB recovered the overturned boat and landed her on the beach at Tuns tall.
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