ILB launches on service during the months September, October and November, 1973 Aberdovey, Merionethshire September 2, 29 (twice) and November 23.
Abersoch, Caernarvonshire September 14 and 29...
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'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
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MAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL At 3.15 p.m. on I9th November, 1965, a local doctor asked the honorary secretary for the services of the life-boat to take a man with a haemorrhage to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mary Stanford,...
and 17 stations with rocket apparatus only, so that Sweden has a fleet of 26 motor life-boats, and 2 pulling (one with an outboard motor).
Turkey There were no services to British vessels.
There are 4 life...
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At/antic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat B539 is stationed at Brighton. Note that her helmsman is steering with his left hand, keeping his right on the throttles.. - View image in PDF
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Last spring it was announced that the Variety Club of Great Britain had agreed to meet the costs of the payments made by the RNLI to dependent children of lifeboatmen who had lost their lives on service or exercise, and also that the Club... - View image in PDF
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Aberdovey, Gwynedd December 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd December 10 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan February 24 Beaumaris, Gwynedd January 1 and 17 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland December 16 Blackpool, Lancashire February 26 and 28 Broughty...
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By THERESA KEANEY (aged 13f), of Our Lady's Girls' School, Cavendish Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire.
THERE are thousands of brave men. Why do you look upon the Life-boatman as a hero among them ? Hero ! what does...
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Silence is golden. Rabbi Jonathan Romain (r), minister of Maidenhead Synagogue, took part in a sponsored non-sermon in August. He toured shops and offices in Maidenhead and told people he would give them a 30 minute sermon on the merits of... - View image in PDF
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Eastern Division Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and...
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