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Tuesday, 6 September started off as a normal day in the office at Poole, but by mid morning this had all changed after a call from the director of the RNLI.
I was to liaise with the British Red Cross Society (BRCS), he said...
Category: Articles
During a Visit to Islay on July Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution With Coxswain Alistair Campbell on the Flying Bridge Brings In the 50Ft Thames Class Lifeboat Helmut Schroder Of
During a visit to Islay on July, HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, with Coxswain Alistair Campbell on the flying bridge, brings in the 50ft Thames class lifeboat Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit. photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue
RESCUE D LifeBoAt CReW sAVes eAsteR BUNNy! Tobermory lifeboat crew had an unusual, yet appropriate, casualty to rescue on Easter Sunday in the form of a pet rabbit. Four adults, two children, a dog and the rabbit were onboard the yacht Blue...
Category: Articles
84 - and Still Working for the Life-Boats.
The Institution has received cheques from two ladies wlao are now both 84 years old, but still coatiau* to collect for it. One cheque comes from Mrs. L. M. Smith, of Gedling, the honorary organiser for a district of the Nottingham branch,...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Totton and District branch is organising no less than 12 fund-raising events in 1980, and has distributed its programme to 8,000 homes in its area. The first event, a jumble sale in February, realised £313. The branch received donations...
Category: Donations
Royal Opening for Kirkwall Boat House
HRH The Princess Royal visited Kirkwall Harbour, during a tour of Orkney, where she formally opened the lifeboat house and unve-iled two dedication plaques. The plaques had been specially prepared from a granite curling stone which had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards for Selsey and Sheringham Coxswains
COXSWAIN DOUGLAS GRANT, of Selsey, and Coxswain Henry West, of Sheringham, have become the first two members of life-boat crews to receive gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.
This fund was established in 1955...
Category: Awards
ICS Electronics Ltd.
MC A/I IMC W! THE LATEST IN WEATHER TECHNOLOGY £535-00 STARTING AT JUST Wireless or cabled incVAT The new Vantage Pro weather stations offer forecasting, on-screen graphing for every sensor, and multiple alarm settings. Monitor...
Category: Advertisement
The Fire at Cowes
The remains of the Watson cabin motor life-boats from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight and Selsey, Sussex. Nothing is left forward but the keels, deadwoods and iron floor-straps. On the left can be seen the forward steel bulkhead of the engine-room... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
President Visits Scottish Stations
During his visit to Longhope HRH The Duke of Kent met James Adams who retired that week after 28 years service aboard the station's lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs