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A corner of the exhibition at the Post Office Communications Centre, London, organised by Mr Ian Carr, a keen supporter of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund.
He has started a branch.
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JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.5 P.M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...
Troon: Monday February 27, 1984, at 1135, Troon's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Connel Elizabeth Cargill, under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Johnson, left her mooring after reports that the tug Garnock had been damaged by an...
DECEMBER 6-7TH. - NEW BRIGH-TON, CHESHIRE. Shortly after five in the evening a message was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board that the Liverpool steamer Gorsethorn had sent an SOS that she was disabled fifteen miles N.W. by W....
Mrs Beryl Robertson of Alfred Terrace Walton, Essex, helped by her mother Mrs Win Garratt, collected 150 Ib of stamps from friends and local shops during the past year realising £40 which she gave to the RNLI.
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Two of the collectors from the B irmingham branch attracted the attention of shoppers in the City Centre by wearing RNLI equipment and collecting next to an Atlantic 21 lifeboat.
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Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 20 vessels saved by them . 444.
Amount of Rewards to Life-boat Crews . . . . . £1,570 18 11
Number...
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Lewis drops in Actor Kevin Whately, known to many as Inspector Lewis of television's Inspector Morse, took time out of his busy schedule to open the Seahouses lifeboat fete on August 30.
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ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not have been worse. A whole gale was blowing from the north. A tremendous sea was...
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