The Islay, Inner Hebrides, life-boat circling the upturned hull of the barge Isle of Gigha three miles south of Chuirn Island on 11th November, 1966.. - View image in PDF
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JUST AS at a time of family celebration, wherever its members may be, their thoughts will turn to home, so in the spring of 1974 the thoughts of the RNLI and its friends must inevitably turn to Douglas; the little seaport on the Isle of Man...
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A fine action study of the Iste of Wight life-boat towing in the yacht Alchemist off the Needles on 26th March, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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Preparations finished for their annual cheese and wine evening, the ladies of Port Erin guild, Isle of Man, await their guests. Among the committee members are (extreme I) Mrs D. Maddrell, chairman, widow of former Coxswain Dennis Maddrell,... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Ritchie, now an honorary life governor of the Institution, is welcomed aboard The Gough Ritchie, the second Isle of Man lifeboat she has donated, by Coxswain Norman Quillin.. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 29TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
The Isle of Man Steam Packet Passenger and Mail Boat, Rushen Castle, with 150 passengers and crew on board, left Liverpool at 10 A.M. on the 27th January, 1940, and arrived in Douglas Bay...
Dr Harrison Broadbent On Top of the Cliff After His Irb Ordeal In Scratchell's Bay Isle of Wight On 10th April 1966 (See P 136). - View image in PDF
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ON January 26fch last there were severe gales all round the coast, and fourteen Life-boat launches took place at Mon- trose, Gourdon and Aibroath on the east coast of Scotland, at Newbiggin, Bridlington and Scarborough on the north-east...
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DURING the past three years excellent histories have been written, and pub- lished locally, of six life-boat stations.
Rhyl celebrated its centenary in 1952,"and The Story of Rhyl's Life- boats, 1852 to 1952 was...
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His Excellency The Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (Major General Sir William Fry KCVO CB). - View image in PDF
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