The Coxswain of the Life-boat Queensbury when returning from the fishing-ground at 8 A.M. on the 1st June, experienced very great difficulty in making the harbour and incurred considerable risk in the prevailing E.S.E. gale. He therefore...
A lifebelt cheque for £200 was paid into Banbury and District branch's bank account, the money being the profit from a Round Table dinner at Brackley at which Raymond Baxter, a member of the RNLI's Public Relations Committee was... - View image in PDF
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Aith, Shetland Appledore, North Devon Ballycotton, Co. Cork Bar-mouth, Merionethshire Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Blackpool, Lancashire Bridlington, Yorkshire Calshot,...
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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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Plastic collecting boxes are to be gradually introduced experimentally by the R.N.L.I. Here the box, orange in colour, is being shown off. Another box of the same shape, yellow in colour, has been ordered for experimental use as the... - View image in PDF
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On Easter Sunday the eight young ladies shown here, dressed in R.N.L.I.
jerseys and red mini-skirts, walked from Tower Bridge to Hyde Park Corner— a distance of 20 miles—circumnavigating the city and West End. Organisations... - View image in PDF
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A Miniflare being fired at night. The payload is, incidentally, falling while burning: a distress pyrotechnic does not ascend burning.. - View image in PDF
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Aubrey Diggle, pictured left, receiving a letter of appreciation from Peter Nicolson, Chairman of the RNLI, for saving two surfers. - View image in PDF
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Reading a telegram of congratulation from the King.. - View image in PDF
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Spring comes early to the Isles of Scilly and on March 4, St Mary's town hall was a blaze of colour for the ladies' guild annual flower show: Mrs Mary West, chairman, is seen with some of the many varieties of daffodil shown,... - View image in PDF
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