Lord Mayor of London, Sir Peter Vanneck, who opened the show, chats to Mrs Charles Hunting Simpson (c.) and Mrs Peter Grace, chairman, Central London Committee. The ladies, manning the souvenir stall, are seen 'modelling' the... - View image in PDF
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Touring headquarters after the third lotterydraw, June Whitfield said how much she would like to go out in a lifeboat. Arrangements were made for her and Terry Scott to go out on trials of the 50ft Thames class lifeboat which will be... - View image in PDF
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Democratic Republic of Germany: Poel is one of East Germany's 17.9m lifeboats; speed 10 knots. The service also has two rescue cruisers and inflatable inshore lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
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Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan was awarded the gold, silver and bronze medals for gallantry for services by Humber lifeboat in some of the worst storms of the past winter. These services were to Revi, Diana V and Savinesti respectively... - View image in PDF
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Buster Merryfield, alias Uncle Albert from TV's Only Fools and Horses, drew the winning tickets in the RNLI's 48th lottery on 31 January 1990.
He is pictured with Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's head of fund raising,... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Hugh Nelson (centre) and the Donaghadee crew who took part in the service to Princess Victoria on January 31, 1953. Thirty-four lives were saved by Donaghadee and Portpatrick lifeboats in winds up to hurricane... - View image in PDF
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(Below) Members ofHuddersfield ladies' lifeboat luncheon club visited Flamborough this summer to take part with members of Flamborough ladies' guild and luncheon club in a memorial service to the late Mrs Mabel Greenhalgh, first... - View image in PDF
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(Above) Forty and more entrants set off on Sunday, October 4, for Soiithend-on-Sea ladies' guild's second tinnual fancy dress sponsored bicycle ride along the seafront from Shore House, Shoebury, where Percy Caron judged the costumes... - View image in PDF
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HMS Rothesay, first group life governor of the Institution. - View image in PDF
Gifford Rosling, ADOS (Southern),presents membership card and Shoreline flag to Commander Noel James, her commanding officer.. - View image in PDF
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Wells Lifeboat Ernest Tom Neathercoat Photographed From Raf Helicopter Rescue 125 Soon After 1000 On November 21 As She Rides Out The Storm and High Sea. - View image in PDF
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