'Thank you for the fantastic day . . . it was great to meet the lifeboatmen and go on a real lifeboat..." wrote John Fenwick after his visit to the Royal Festival Hall.. - View image in PDF
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The organisers of Hartlepool Harbour Day really know how to pull a crowd. This was the start last summer of the raft race as the numerous strangely clad contestants paddled past Teesmouth lifeboat. Also taking place that day was the now... - View image in PDF
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Two of the horses and their owners are reunited with their rescuers. - View image in PDF
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(Right) Borth: ILB Crew Member Anna Hubbard out on exercise with Crew Member leuan Griffiths and Helmsman Ronnie Davies.. - View image in PDF
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THE Spanish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked has named the new Motor Life-boat which it has stationed at Malaga, near Gibraltar, the Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institution, Colonel Sir "William Hillary, Bt., who...
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SPEAKING AT the annual general meeting of the RNLI last April, Major-General Ralph Farrant, Chairman of the Committee of Management, made it quite clear that, whatever economies might be necessary in these days of inflation, the first...
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(Above) Four Scouts, one each from Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the framed photograph of The Scout which they had received from Captain Kirk, and (above right) Robert Maiden, son of the coxswain, presents to Her... - View image in PDF
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The Walmer life-boat standing by the East Goodwin lightvessel in 1961 when she broke adrift in severe weather. The picture was taken next day after the life-boat had been out in the worst conditions the crew could remember.. - View image in PDF
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A cheque for £350 for Walton and Hersham branch is presented by Richard Holley (centre left) to Sydney Gillingham, deputy regional organiser (South East). Around them are the members of the 1st Walton Viking Sea Scouts who had raised... - View image in PDF
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