(above) Storm Force member Lilly Henley is intent on completing the Storm Force Treasure Hunt at the London Boat Show.. - View image in PDF
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Pictured below L-R: Tower Pier lifeboat Crew Members Kaverne Bailey (23), Michael 'Fester' Sinacola (38) and Ian Barnaby (44) Pictured right and bottom right: Bill Callaghan is a yeoman at the Tower of London - and a volunteer at the... - View image in PDF
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Hoylake's Rother class lifeboat Mary Gabriel stands by the coaster Nanna as a fire-tug fights the fire which led to the evacuation of her eight-man crew. - View image in PDF
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Souvenirs, pictures, bells, models and other exhibits now fill the museum.. - View image in PDF
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More than 50 hardy walkers set off on a 20 mile trek from Whitstable harbour to boost funds for the planned extension to the boathouse. Chairman of the fund raising committee, Mrs Linda Livingstone, organised the sponsored walk to Faversham... - View image in PDF
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AT the end of November, 1920, the American three-masted sailing ship Marion Chilcott sailed from Denmark for St. Thomas, West Indies. When she was a few days out she met with very thick weather and strong south-easterly gales. She was driven...
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MR. MICHAEL WILSON, a second officer on leave from the Merchant Navy, who went out as a member of the Tenby life-boat crew, has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of five boys and a girl on 27th...
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Since the war began our life-boats have rescued 6,272 lives. That is more lives rescued in five years and six months of war than in the last seventeen years of peace..
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PROPELLER FOULED BY NETS Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 7 o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1947, flares were seen in South Bay, and the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 7.20. A strong southerly...
Pupils at Fowey Community School put their backs to the wheels and trundled a D class inflatable lifeboat 74 times round their school bus park. Photo Jonathan Barker. - View image in PDF
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