Bottom - Festivities carry on well into the night and lifeboats are left moored up alongside the Quay for all to see. - View image in PDF
Photo: David Porter. - View image in PDF
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THERE were 272 stations embraced in the Life-saving Establishment of the United States at the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1902. Of this number 195 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the...
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In addition to receiving the gold badge for his services to the RNLI in 1982, Dr Sydney Peace (r) was further honoured at a gathering of his friends and colleagues in Orkney by the presentation of a pipe tune composed for him by Pipe Major... - View image in PDF
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WHEN I WAS FOUR...
0 My first contribution to the R.N.L.I, was made at the age of approximately 4 years in 1897, this being on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. There was a procession through the town...
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(Above) The RNLI is supported entirely by money which people give of their own free choice. Much of it is raised by branches and guilds throughout the country and one source of income is from lifeboat flag days.. - View image in PDF
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First skin is laid diagonally: a plank which has been offered up and shaped to lie snugly with its neighbour is cramped into position and fastened to the solid timbers of the boat's frame.. - View image in PDF
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HRH The Duchess of Gloucester Presents A Bronze Medal The Recipient Is Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. - View image in PDF
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Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OP SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: JAMES ROBSON, 31J years coxswain of the North Sunderland life-boat.
WILLIAM H....
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Now replaced by a Motor Life-boat after 24 years' service, on her road-journey of over 250 miles from her Station to the Reserve Fleet at the Institution's Storeyard in London.. - View image in PDF
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The recipient is Coxswain SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM, of Portrush (see page 52). - View image in PDF
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