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Ernie Came Too, to Boost the Sales of RNLI Cook Books With His Autograph, Backed Up By Our Old Friend. Sergeant Frank Elverson Who, Singlehanded, Collected £800 D
Ernie came too, to boost the sales of RNLI Cook Books with his autograph, backed up by our old friend. Sergeant Frank Elverson who, singlehanded, collected £800 during the show.. - View image in PDF
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(Left) Champagne Breaks Over the Bow the 44Ft Waveney Relief Lifeboat Wavy Line and (Below) a Bouquet Is Presented Her Namer Mrs Barbara Laird By Sir Alec Rose
(Left) Champagne breaks over the bow of the 44ft Waveney relief lifeboat Wavy Line, and (below) a bouquet is presented to her namer, Mrs Barbara Laird, by Sir Alec Rose. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Julian Paul
Ten hour service to disabled fishing vessel in gale force winds The coxswains of both the Penlee and Sennen Cove lifeboats, Neil Brockman and Terry George, have been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal following a joint service to a...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE unusually fine weather of the last three months has been most favourable to Life-boat Saturday demonstrations throughout the country, and hardly a Saturday has passed without one or more of such functions being held. The popu- larity of...
Category: Articles
The King Returns
Over 120 Elvis lookalikes, gangsters, Vegas girls, and other Vegas-style characters attended a glitzy Viva Las Vegas' RNLI fundraising party on 10 November at Fifteen 05 in central London. The evening included a star performance from... - View image in PDF
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Britannia
26th April. The local fishing boat Britannia put out on the morning of the 25th April, but did not return when expected, and some anxiety was felt. Soon after 11 P.M.
the honorary secretary asked the coast- guard to signal...
Danny La Rue
It was far from being a drag for Danny La Rue to open the summer fair organised by Bridlington ladies' lifeboat guild. He is seen here with Australian pianist Wayne King signing the guild's special table cloth which carries the... - View image in PDF
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Gannet
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 11.30 on the night of the 17th of May, 1952, the police reported that the local motor launch Gannet had left Tresco with passengers at 10.30 but had not reached St. Mary's. The sea was smooth, the...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
By Train to Her Station
Pulling and sailing life-boat setting out from London to Whitby.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs