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A trip to the London International Boat Show 7th - 17th January 1999, is even better if you make a Stakis Hotel your first port of call.
The friendly welcome continues right through...
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Freddie Bell-Scott MBE, president of the Birmingham branch. Freddie joined the branch in 1957 and was involved with the appeal for the lifeboat, City of BirminghamBirmingham which was launched in 1970. He was chairman from 1974 to 1978,...
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On the 22nd August, the barque Frederick, of Dublin, drove <5n the bar off Dundalk; there was only one man on board, who had been left in charge. On the 13th Sept., the weather being squally and a heavy sea on, the Dundalk life-boat...
" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...
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COXSWAIN JOHN GILL, of Galway Bay, who served as bowman from 1932 to 1933, second coxswain from 1933 to 1938 and coxswain from 1938 to 1943, was awarded the bronze medal in 1938 for the rescue of eleven men when the steam trawler Nogi went...
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The life-boat station at Lytham - St Anne's began life as a mussel purification station. It is said that the idea for adapting the premises came from Mechanic George Harrison. Next door is the local yacht club whose members are dedicated... - View image in PDF
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Waiting with Wilkie to Swimalong for the RNLI at Birmingham Holiday Inn. Only one Olympic champion, David Wilkie, but plenty of eager swimmers. Nearly 100 boys took part from West House, one of several local schools in the swim, and they... - View image in PDF
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On the night of the 26th-27th November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel broke adrift in a gale and at daylight was found to be lying on her beam ends. The Dover, Ramsgate and Walmer life-boats were all launch- ed, but the sole survivor...
On the 28th February, the brig George and James, of London, ran ashore near Winterton. The life-boat was soon launched and proceeded to her, taking off her crew, 8 in number, and landing them safely at Winterton.
Sculpture from scrap has been a highly successful idea for John Perse nee, a committee member of Heist on branch and also a Shoreline member. Mr Persence, a welder by trade, creates, in his spare time, model steam engines, boats and figures... - View image in PDF
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