(Left) The local lifeboat entry for the cavalcade which opened Alderney Week 1977. Mrs N. J. Allen leads the RNLI team in Alderney, which, with an island population of about 1,750, has contributed £4,340 to Guernsey branch funds over... - View image in PDF
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The ladies oj Kirkburton guild. West Yorkshire, together with many friends, volunteered to be extras in a training film made recently for the National Biscuit Company at Hillards stores.
After a very entertaining afternoon,... - View image in PDF
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(Right) An RN Wessex helicopter exercising in Holes Bay with an Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat during operational demonstrations at RNLI Poole Open Days 1982.. - View image in PDF
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The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore, spent an hour with the RNLI when visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy last autumn. (Above right—Royal Marine photograph) He was transferred by Atlantic 21 1LB to (above) Arun class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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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 during the show.. - View image in PDF
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Richard Simmonds, Euro MP for Wight and Hampshire East (centre) with RNLI Chief Accountant Roger Priestley (left) and Jack Barr, Managing Director of FBM Marine during their visit to FBM.. - View image in PDF
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Spirit of Lowestoft Lowestott's New Tyne Class Waits For Her Official Name With Gorleston's Waveney and Southwold's Atlantic 21 In The Background. - View image in PDF
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On the 21st De- cember the barque Royal Hose, of Whitby, bound to Leith with a cargo of wheat, having sprung a leak during a north-easterly gale, ran on shore on the Whitby Sands, the smaller life-boat belonging to the Institution was with...
Mr Robin Knox- Johnson, the Atlantic sailor, who is a member of the Committee of Management of the RNLI, declared at the annual meeting: 7 think we should remember their families who stay behind while they go out and risk their lives'.... - View image in PDF
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DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...
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