Port Erin, Isle of Man - At 5.35 p.m.
on 21st July, 1969, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a dinghy with three people on board was in difficulties in Port Erin bay. The life-boat Matthew Simpson was launched at 5.50 in a...
Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat.
H.R.H. THE DUKE of KENT, KG., on 27th June named the motor life-boat at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. This is the ninth motor life-boat which he has named. The other eight have...
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LAST November Matthew Clarkson, second coxswain of the Lytham life- boat, disappeared while shrimping in the Ribble estuary. The crew of the Lytham life-boat received £2 10s. each A* in rewards from the Institution for searching for...
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LIFEMASTER Lifejackets MANUFACTURED TO BRITISH STANDARD 3595 : 1963 VACUUM REFLEX LT.° Special Designs supplied to R.N.L.I.
and constructional engineering concerns • VARIETY OF DESIGNS INCLUDES INHERENT, ORAL AND CO2...
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Chosen for reliability LUCAS The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
Lucas and CAV supply a full range of...
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One thousand pairs of odd sized shoes raised about £2,000 for the Wolverhampton branch. A local shoe dealer very kindly donated 2,000 new, but odd sized shoes. The branch made up 1,000 pairs of shoes within a size of each other. Prices... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'Shall I pack it up for you, madam?' Two-yearold Sarah Hawley, youngest regular helper at Morecambe branch's souvenir stall which is run by Mrs I. Binnie, Mrs J. Terry and Mr H.
Ingham. In two years the stall... - View image in PDF
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Going quackers! The Frame Sub Aqua Club raised £700 at its duck race, the proceeds of which will be split between the club and the RNLI. Each of the 700 ducks was sponsored at £1 a time and club member Mike Moore seems to be having... - View image in PDF
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AT a final meeting of the committee and representatives of the subscribers to the Mayor of Swansea's 1947 Mumbles Life-boat Disaster Fund, which was held at the Guildhall, Swansea, on the 4th of June, a scheme was approved for the...
Category: Accounts
AGED 60 TO 90? HOMEOWNER? We kept our retirement dreams afloat A retired couple make the most of their retirement years with an equity release scheme Mr & Mrs Walkington had always harboured a lifelong dream of owning their own canal...
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