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The First of the Atlantic 21S,
The first of the Atlantic 21s, and the forerunner of all rigid inflatables now widely used for commercial and leisure purposes.
Developed at Atlantic College and using a rigid buoyant floor surrounded by a continuous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUHTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patron His Most Gracious Majesty the King
Chairman— H eputg= Ibairman— COLONEL SIR FrrzRov CLAYTON, K.C.V.O., V.P. . SIR JOHN CAMKROX LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.,...
Category: Advertisement
Awards to Coxswains
DUIUNI; September and October the following awards were made to Cox- swains :— ; To THOMAS LANGLANDS, on Ms retirement after serving continuously as Coxswain for 43 years—22 years as Coxswain of the Upgang Life-boat, and 21 years as Coxswain...
Category: Awards
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 19th November, 1920.
The Rt Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Co-opted Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir George G. Goodwin, K.C.B., and the Chairman of Lloyds (ex officio) Members of the...
Category: Committee
A Team of Bowler-Hatted Waiters
A team of bowler-hatted waiters provided some oldfashioned service from the bar at Henley-on-Thames branch Old Tyme Music Hall last October. On an evening when manv of the audience also came in costume to join in the fun, £600 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
River Thames Jubilee Pageant: Sheerness Lifeboat Helen Turnbull With Hmy Britannia at Tower Bridge (Below) and (Right) Embarking the Lard Mayor of Westminster
River Thames Jubilee Pageant: Sheerness lifeboat Helen Turnbull with HMY Britannia at Tower Bridge (below) and (right) embarking the Lard Mayor of Westminster, for whom she acted as barge. (Left) A fundraising cruise up the Thames following... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Geddes Chairman of Peterhead Branch
Overbearing presence? Ed MacFarland (I), general manager of Marathon Oil operations office in Aberdeen presents a cheque for $10,000 to John Geddes, chairman of Peterhead branch, in the company of a reasonably benevolent looking witness. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charity Fund
Larry Lamberton (right), Whitstable lifeboat station honorary secretary and crew member Nick Dawkins (centre) recently received a cheque for £500 from Ian Pearson, manager of Brett Asphalt.
Last year the company set up... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eclipse
FBASEBBUKGH.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 25th of October the schooner Eclipse, of Dundee, bound from Suaderland to Little Ferry with coal, showed signals of distress while riding in the bay. The Cosmo and Charles Life-boat proceeded to her...
Fishing Boats
Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 6th of February, 1950, after the local boats had left for the fishing grounds sixteen miles south-east of Cromer, there were indications of a north-easterly gale approaching. It was decided, therefore,...