Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney lifeboat 44-001 on temporary duty at Gorleston returning from service to the Danish vessel Baltic, which had developed a heavy list, on April 8. Seven seamen, picked up by the tug Vanguard... - View image in PDF
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(From r.) Tom Nutman, DI (Scotland, N.), accompanies Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, chairman of the Search and Rescue Committee, Commander Bruce Cairns, Chief of Operations, and Captain Bob Browning, BP Forties Administrative Superintendent... - View image in PDF
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'Certain members of crews are also trained to carry out rescue work as swimmers, and special wet suit swimming equipment has recently been developed.'. - View image in PDF
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17' 6" model of a Watson lifeboat, built from all kinds of scrap material by boys ami girls of Romford and Dagenliam Model Boat Club. The club, affiliated to the Dagcnliain branch of the RNLI, has so far raised £850 with this... - View image in PDF
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Next morning the Duchess of Kent was taken out in Sir William Arnold (left) and clearly enjoyed every minute of her trip.. - View image in PDF
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Susan Last, who organises Brightlingsea lifeboat collection, also 'organises' her parents, Jean and Ernest Last! Mrs Last is disabled but in her Batricar decorated with posters and armed with souvenirs for sale, she raised £70.... - View image in PDF
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Litchfield ladies' guild organised their tenth annual fork luncheon in the spring, cooking, preparing and serving all the food themselves. Held, as usual, in the Guildhall it was a sell out, some 250 people attending; the profit was... - View image in PDF
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The 52ft Barnett relief lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse, while at Ramsey during a passage from Holyhead to Arranmore, launched on the morning of January 23 to take over from HMS Soberton the tow of Dutch, a converted ship's... - View image in PDF
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On exercise: Joy and John Wade, the 52ft Arun stationed at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of HMS Daedalus. - View image in PDF
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The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was the splendid setting for a cheese and wine evening, held last November. The 400 guests sampled the delights of Dutch cheese, kindly provided by the Dutch Dairy Bureau; Martell donated a gross of... - View image in PDF
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