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Sir Alec Rose, the Round-The-World Sailor and Navigator, Made the Award Presentations at the Annual Meeting of the R.N.L.I, In London on 8Th April 1970.
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor and navigator, made the award presentations at the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I, in London on 8th April 1970.
(1) Coxswain William Sheader (Scarborough) the silver medal, (2)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whitby Museum In the Old Lifeboat House: at the Souvenir Stand Are (l) Eric Thomson Founder of the Museum and His Main Helper Ex- Motor Mechanic William Drvden
Whitby museum, in the old lifeboat house: At the souvenir stand are (/.) Eric Thomson, founder of the museum, and his main lie/per, e. Motor Mechanic William Drvden.. - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's New 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Barham With Lowestoft Lifeboat the 47Ft Watson Frederick Edward Crick In Attendance Photograph By Courtesy of 'Yarmouth Mercur
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney lifeboat, Barham, with Lowestoft lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Frederick Edward Crick in attendance. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Yarmouth Mercury'. - View image in PDF
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Sir Peter De La Billiere (Extreme Right) Presents the Silk Cut National Rescue Award to Peter Bisson (Right of Group) and Members of the St.Peter Port Lifeboat Cre
Sir Peter de la Billiere (extreme right) presents the Silk Cut National Rescue Award to Peter Bisson (right of group) and members of the St Peter Port lifeboat crew. - View image in PDF
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(Left) the Tank Test Models Were Fitted With a Lawn-Mower Engine, Radio Control and Motion Sensing Instruments for Freerunning Seakeeping Trials.
(Left) The tank test models were fitted with a lawn-mower engine, radio control and motion sensing instruments for freerunning seakeeping trials.. - View image in PDF
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The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
Category: Articles
The S.S. State of Georgia
SOUTHEND, CANTYRE.—The Life-boat John R. Ker was launched at 10.30 P.M.
on the 17th February, and remained by the S.S. State of Georgia, of Glasgow until two steamers arrived on the following morning and took her in tow,...
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Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...
Fishing Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk. — About six o'clock on the morning of the 29th of June, 1953, six local fishing boats put to sea in fair weather, but a swell developed and it became misty. At ten o'clock a man told the life-boat honorary...
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EMERGENCY CALL At 9.15 p.m. on the same day the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young man was suffering from severe head injuries after an accident. No other boat was available and as it was imperative to take the patient to...