Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again... - View image in PDF
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Five hundred people attending Gorleston lifeboat hall gave a big 'send off to a mammoth fund-raising event by- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No. 41.
The Tabler.i aim to raise £10,000 for the Institution... - View image in PDF
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Reunion at Torbay in May for five retired coxswains and one retired motor mechanic.
(I. to r.) Coxswain Frederick Sanders, Motor Mechanic Richard Harris, Coxswain Henry Thomas, Coxswain Abraham Bartlett, Coxswain Harold... - View image in PDF
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The results of The Birmingham Post's children's poster competition are as follows: seniors (11 to 16 years): 1st—David John Brown, aged 15, of Fabian Crescent, Shirley, Solihull; 2nd—Lyn Bonner, aged 11, of Mayswood Road, Solihull;...
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The organisers of the Moelex 80 Business and Home Exhibition staged at the University of Essex for five days last spring, invited Colchester branch to set up a souvenir stand at the event. Here, Mrs Ruth Clarke, the honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
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Flamborough lifeboat, the 35' 6" Liverpool Friendly Forester, was launched at 1605 on Wednesday, September 8, to go to the help of a cabin cruiser on fire off Flamborough Head. All five of the casualty's crew were taken off, two... - View image in PDF
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The five medallists in London (lefito right) Coxswain M. Lethbridge, junior, Second Coxswain E. Guy, Motor Mechanic W. Burrow (all members of the St.
Mary's life-boat), Coxswain P. Byrne (Arranmore) and Coxswain J.... - View image in PDF
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The ladies guild in the small market town of Driffield raised £3.046 in 1978, making a total of £9.497 in five years. A cheese and wine party at the Trout Inn is one popular annual event. (I. to r.) Mrs H. Byas. honorary treasurer.... - View image in PDF
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With five motor fishing vessels preparing to try to enter harbour in an easterly gale and very rough seas, Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, launched at 1426 on March 18 and stood by at the entrance. Coastguards stood by on the... - View image in PDF
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A CINEMA which had helped the In- stitution by showing one of its films asked in return if the Institution could lend it a flag with skull and crossbones.
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