Comedian Frankie Howerd looks on in amazement at Braunton RNLI team competing in a Jubilee pond bailing competition in Barnstaple staged by Barnstaple Round Table. Some 14 sponsored teams took part. Braunton bailed 25 gallons in six hours... - View image in PDF
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Left: Stuart Weiford in 1977, wearing RNLI visor and helmet in the working section of the wind tunnel. - View image in PDF
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Model lifeboats and their builders raise large sums of money for the RNLI each year, and to further the cause an anonymous donor has provided a perpetual trophy in the name of the RNLI which will be awarded to the best model entered for the... - View image in PDF
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LAST Christmas a choir of twelve got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, in Sussex, went carol singing for the Lifeboats.
They wore oilskins and souwesters lent them by the Institution, and...
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beautifully as only young Welsh voices can. Both band and choir had to endure an icy wind which astonishingly did not impair their music. An anthem composed specially for the naming ceremony by Trevor Roberts was much appreciated by the...
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Young son Wayne Hutchings, aged 1j,'in training' last year.. - View image in PDF
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The 1st Mousehole Boys Brigade (left), took up mops buckets and brushes to clean Penlee lifeboat earlier in the year to raise cash for the Boys Brigade Lifeboats 2000 project.
The boys collected over £700 in... - View image in PDF
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THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun... - View image in PDF
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To JOHN STOREY, after serving 44 years as a member of the Crew of the Newbiggin Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate.
To GEORGE McLEOD, on his retirement, after serving 5 years as Coxswain of the Lossiemouth...
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