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Mr Reg Bray
Mr Reg Bray, chairman of Crawley branch.
Mr Bray was associated with the branch for over 20 years, many of them as chairman. He was awarded a silver badge in 1984..
Category: Obituaries
A Bathtub
THREE MEN who had set out to cross the Inner Wash from the River Nene to Hunstanton in a bathtub on Monday September 13, 1982, were reported overdue at 2115; the tub was lashed to inner tubes and an inflatable dinghy and powered by an...
Franklin Mint Limited,
INSPIRED BY CLASSIC ENGLISH LANTERN CLOCKS OF THE 1600s, THE NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPONSORS shown small ii'tual size of mutely 107»"(27, height and 4;-«" cm) in width. , - CPOOO FraaJdhi Mini unwed, 135...
Category: Advertisement
Paramount
Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...
The New Launching Tractor
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.
LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...
Category: Inaugurations
The Site of the Rescue, the Causeway Leading to Fort Clonque
The site of the rescue, the causeway leading to Fort Clonque. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Army Helps the Life-Boat Service
DURING July, 1968, the track to the life-boat station at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, was repaired by a squadron of Royal Engineers. The station is four miles from the town and about a mile from the public road, access being by a private track...
Category: Articles
A Close Shave!
A close shave! Councillor Alun Roberts surrendered his 22-year-old beard in aid of the RNLl and raised £244 for the Penarth branch. He is seen being shaved bv hairdresser Alan Jones. Among the witnesses were deputy launching authority... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Jacko Harris
The late Jacko Harris with just a few of the many thousands of school children he showed round Appledore lifeboat house in the last 14 years of his life.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Members of Northampton Ladies' Guild Man the Refreshment Stall at a Market Organised By the Branch at the End of Last Year Held In the Town's Guildhall the Event Rai
Members of Northampton ladies' guild man the refreshment stall at a market organised by the branch at the end of last year. Held in the town's Guildhall the event raised £535.
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs