The financial solutions company Foresters is lending a helping hand to this year’s SOS Day by sponsoring fundraising material for schools. Mailings, SOS champion packs for Storm Force members and a host of online downloads hope to encourage...
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BY the death of ME. H. ARTHUR BAKER, on 11th December, 1946, the Committee of Management have lost a colleague whose devoted services they feel that they can ill spare. He became a member in 1925, and was appointed a vice-president in...
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NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT has been a year of splendid achievement for the Life-boat Service, overshadowed by a great tragedy.
During the year the Institution gave rewards for the rescue of no fewer than 591 lives....
Category: Annual Reports
Back Row: Coxswain James Watkins of Angle; Coxswain William Peters of St Ives; Coxswain John Murt of Padstow; and Robert Harland of Whitby Et Al. - View image in PDF
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Today: Preparing for exercise. (I. to r.) Senior Helmsman Graham Thorburn, 'Bengie' Pearson, Bob Bryson, Jim Pearson Helpers David Cochrane and Tom Brown (who maintains boat and boathouse in good order) and finally Paddy Hooton..<... - View image in PDF
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Guernsey ladies' guild has its own 'lifeboat', a mobile souvenir stall which attracts great interest wherever she goes. Roger Wood designed Lady Goodwill and built her with the help of other lifeboat supporters; materials were... - View image in PDF
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The Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, visited six lifeboat stations in the south west of England on January 14 and 15: Salcomhe, Torhay, Exmonth, Lyme Regis, Swanage and Poole. He aha took part in fund raising discussions and is... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Ronald Hardy presents members of Swanage crew to His Royal Highness: (.'. to r.) Walter Bishop, John Bishop, Philip Dorey, Eric Dorey (shaking hands) and Second Coxswain/Mechanic Victor Marsh. photographs by J. P.... - View image in PDF
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The Marquis of Normanby, CBE, Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire and a member of the Committee of Management, presented Coxswain William Sheader, Scarborough, with the BEM awarded to him in the New Year Honours List at Mulgrave Castle,... - View image in PDF
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When Stanley Brett, district engineer (north west), retired after 38 years service, motor mechanics from lifeboat stations in all parts of the north west of England and Wales gathered at the Grange Hotel, Rhyl, to wish him well. Mr Brett,... - View image in PDF
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