(Left) Champagne breaks over the bow of the 44ft Waveney relief lifeboat Wavy Line, and (below) a bouquet is presented to her namer, Mrs Barbara Laird, by Sir Alec Rose. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa pier, Orkney -At 11.30 a.m. on 18th April, 1969, a man was seen by a member of the life-boat crew to fall from the end of Scapa pier into the sea. The IRB carried aboard the life-boat was launched at 11.31. The tide...
Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries. Are you looking for an imaginative and inspirational gift for these celebrations? Instead of giving presents to people for their special occasions have you ever thought of donating some money to your... - View image in PDF
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UNDER the will of Miss Maud Smith, of Chesham Place, London, who died in February, 1943, £200 was given to the Institution for investment, from which a sum not exceeding £5 was to be given in January of each year to the...
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A CONFERENCE of the branches in the London District was held at Southend- on-Sea on the 30th of March. Eighty- one delegates from forty-five branches attended it. The party was welcomed by the Mayor, visited the life-boat house, saw the life...
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THE life-boat service has benefited by £5 as the result of a vow by two army officers on Salisbury Plain. The}7 bound themselves to "a particular Lenten abstention," and the penalty for failure was to be a cheque for £2...
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ATTEMPT TO REFLOAT A STEAMER Flamborough, Yorkshire.—On the night of the 3rd of January, 1948,- the S.S. Lynn Trader went ashore about one mile south of Flamborough Head while on passage, in ballast, from King's Lynn to Blyth. She...