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and rough seas. At the request of the Coastguard, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Atlantic 21 was launched with Helmsman Colin Staples in command.
However, when the lifeboat arrived on scene the man had succeeded in...
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Coventry Junior and Infant Schools
Edward Mockett, Coventry branch honorary secretary, receives a collecting box back from pupils of one of the 21 Coventry junior and infant schools which between them collected £160 for the RNLI.
photograph by courtesy... - View image in PDF
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Latest Lifeboat Fashions
The Stratford upon Avon branch of the RNLI, together with Justina's of Stratford organised a highly successful evening of film and fashion at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Shakespeare Centre on 21 March 1996.. - View image in PDF
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Divers Out of Their Depth...
'Fifty-three miles over two and a half days couldn't be that difficult - then we saw the OS map! Why are all these brown lines so close together?' - Jem Gotch and members of Second City Diving Club well above sea level..View image in PDF
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(Lower Right) the RNLI's Display Co-Ordinator Liam Mckenna
(Lower right) The RNLI's Display Co-ordinator Liam McKenna has every right to look exhausted as Saturday draws to a close - most of the vast burden of organising the event falls on his shoulders.. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (20)
FEBRUARY 27TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
A Whitley bomber had been reported down in the sea, but actually it had come down close to the shore north of Fife Ness. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d..
Into the Dragon's Mouth
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1949 ...
76,724 Into the Dragon's Mouth IN the...
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July
Launches 35 Lives rescued 8 JULY 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.46 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported that a four-engined bombing aeroplane, belonging to the R.A.F., had crashed in the sea about two and three-quarter miles east of the...
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Scarpe
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 28th of March, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that an ex- it.A.F. motor launch appeared to be in need of help one and a half miles east-north-east of Flamborough Head but had shown no...
Otto N. Miller and Nora
TANKER ON FIRE Eastbourne and Newhaven, Sussex.
At 8.5 a.m. on 2yth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Eastbourne and Newhaven lifeboat stations that the Liberian tanker Otto N. Miller of...