Air Vice Marshal John Te!Ley Cb Cvo RNLI Deputy Chairman. - View image in PDF
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THE SPICE OF LIFE by 'Albert' Published by Harvey Press, 23/20 Royal Hospital, London SW34SRat£10(plus£1p&p) ISBN 09517513 01 'Albert' is one of the dedicated band of pensioners from the Royal Hospital, Chelsea...
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Eastbourne: Coxswain Derek Hu ett (I.) and station honorary secretary Alderman Cecil I . Baker outside the lifeboat museum which enjoys a fine position on the promenade.. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat crew member Frank Dunster (left) who took his own rigid inflatable to the casualty and Roderick James (right) helmsman of the Hayling Island Atlantic 21.. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning the fishing boats went to sea. The sea got up and made it very dangerous for the boats to cross the bar on their return. At 2.45 in the afternoon the No. 1 motor...
Also on that day, the brigantine Qirondin, of Bordeaux, stranded during a strong gale from the S., and in a heavy sea, on the Par Sands, on the Cornish coast. The South War- wickshire life-boat was launched, and suc- ceeded in rescuing the...
Tracey Edwards, Yachtswoman of the Year, aboard Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat during the station's lifeboat week. Tracey has since become a vice president of the branch. (Photo Jeanne Hambleton). - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 5.35 in the morning the coastguard reported red flares at Goodwin Knoll. A moderate north-north-east breeze was blowing, but the sea was heavy. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 6.3 and found...
* You'll never do it,' they said. ' You're mad . . .' but Dickon Sandbach and Nick Bale, undeterred, brought to reality their dream: a charity cycle ride from Land's End to John O'Groats. For two years they... - View image in PDF
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Early on the morning of the 15th of December, 1953, the St. Helier, Jersey, life-boat Elizabeth Rippon took off eleven of the crew of the motor vessel Brockley Combe, of Bristol, which had struck the Minquiers Reef. For this service, a full...