DURING the last few years the Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have had many opportunities for observing the great need that existed for the adoption of a uniform system of management of the mortar and rocket apparatus, and...
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Relatives and friends watching the arrival from Scrabster of the Kirkwall lifeboat bringing home to Hoy the seven coffins. …. - View image in PDF
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A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...
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Committee EXCELLENT SUPPORT has continued this quarter for the various projects of the Central Appeals Committee. Captain Phelps, master of John Biscoe of the British Antarctic Survey, on arrival at Southampton handed over more than £31...
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The Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, with Second Coxswain Robert Jones, took the wheel of Holyhead's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Hyman Winstone during a visit on July 18. Mrs Thatcher also met crew members and their wives and branch and... - View image in PDF
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Roger Tomkins from Norwich has become the 30,000th person to join the RNLI's membership grade for sea users. Offshore. To mark the occasion, marketing manager David Brann presented a delighted Roger, accompanied by Sarah Shadbolt, with a... - View image in PDF
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A CONCERT, largely arranged and carried out by the Crew of the Motor Life-boat, was held at Hythe, Kent, on 29th and 30th January last. The notices warned purchasers of tickets that if a call for the Life-boat came, the concert would be...
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The King has awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to Coxswain Howard Primrose Cooper Knight, of the Ramsgat* life-boat, and Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of the Margate life-boat "for gallantry and determination when ferrying troops...
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