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In May, 1968, the first London Spring Fair, in which many of the London branches co-operated, was held in Chelsea Old Town Hall. 18-year-old Sarah Myles, of London, was 'Miss Life-boat' and here she is shown driving along Kings Road,... - View image in PDF
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CRBSSWELL, NOBTHTJMBEBLAND.—Signals of distress were observed at 3 A.M. on the 14th January during a S.S.E. wind and a moderate sea, the weather at the time being hazy. The Old Potter Life-boat was at once launched, proceeded in the...
Atlantic College Atlantic College is a remarkable place in many respects. Housed in St Donat's Castle, built in the fifteenth century, it is perched on rocky slopes which tumble down to the waters of the Bristol Channel. Within the...
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Launches 70 Lives rescued 107
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...
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Among the honoured guests were (I. to r.) Coxswain Charles Dowry ofSheerness, Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, of The Mumbles, Mrs Pat Scott, Mrs Frances Patten and Coxswain Len Patten of Newhaven. The three coxswains, all medallists, made... - View image in PDF
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The 44-foot steel life-boat Khami, which is stationed at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, going out on exercise on 9th November, 1969, in a force 8 gale from the south east and a strong ebb tide.. - View image in PDF
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The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, BEM, The Mumbles; Coxswain William Jones, Holyhead; Coxswain Griffiths Jones, Porthdinllaen; Coxswain Arthur Liddon, Dover; Second Coxswain Peter Gibbons, Lowestoft; Former Second Coxswain... - View image in PDF
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On the 30th Novem- ber, the schooner William Henry, of Belfast, was totally wrecked on St. Mary's Isle, near Kirkcudbright, during a gale from S.S.E.
The Helen Lees life-boat put off and suc- ceeded in saving the...
(Left) Port bow view of 30' self-righting pulling lifeboat built by T. and IV. Forrestt and Son for the US Life Saving Service and now in The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, USA.
photograph by courtesy of The... - View image in PDF
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