Members of 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., at work on the track at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which leads to the life-boat station and (below) the finished track which took the squadron from 1st to 13th July, 1963, to... - View image in PDF
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The position of the life-boat house and slip at St. Abbs is such that the life-boat has to be launched with more than the usual amount of care. This is because fishing boats, driving in in a storm, might be damaged on the slip if it pointed... - View image in PDF
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Tony Vandervell, the first glass fibre Arun, represented the RNLI lifeboat fleet at Helsinki. She will be stationed at Weymouth and is already at home in Portland Race.. - View image in PDF
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Walton and Frinton: Tsunami at anchor south of Long Sand as Edian Courtauld approached. The wind was north east by north force 9, with heavy seas, the weather overcast with heavy rain squalls.
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(Right) White Rock Bowls Club raised £45 for Hastings lifeboat in a new annual pairs competition for the Walden and Weeks cups last autumn. The two cups were presented by Coxswain Joe Martin (centre) to Mr Compary (I.) and Mr Abbott... - View image in PDF
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The advent of the Boat Show means eleven happy days of reunions with old and introduction to new friends of the lifeboat service who come to the RNLI stand. Cilia Black was one of many welcome visitors, and to show her over Silver Jubilee... - View image in PDF
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The author, Richard Mann, in the museum at RNL1 HQ, West Quay Road. Poole. As the Institution's display manager it is part of his work to care for the Institution's museums and to support the volunteer curators who run... - View image in PDF
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Trevor England joined Padstow lifeboat crew in 1957, he became second coxswain/assistant motor mechanic in 1970 and was appointed coxswain in 1978. In 1977 he was awarded the silver medal and in 1979 a bar to his silver medal.. - View image in PDF
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C classjj-Iu_cksjthreejto safety from cliff base The rescue of three people from cliffs on the Cardigan coast has earned two C class crew members the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, with a third going to an off-duty lifeguard...
IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
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