ONE lesson which has emerged from the large deficit incurred last year is that the R.N.L.I. not only needs more money; it needs money from new sources. The work of the voluntary branches will always be the mainstay of the Institution's...
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Councillor Bill Wratham, the Mayor of Poole, (pictured left with David Brann, RNLI Marketing Manager) dropped by RNLI Headquarters in April to draw the winning tickets of the 89th national lifeboat lottery.. - View image in PDF
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IN his Henry Blogg of Cromer (Harrap I5/-), Mr. Cyril Jolly has undertaken with considerable success the important task of writing the biography of the life-boat coxswain who received the most medals for gallantry and won the greatest...
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Mr. Raymond Baxter, the well known B.B.C.'s personality, signing autographs at the Spring Fair organised by the Rugby branch of the R.N.L.I. at the Benn Memorial Hall, Rugby, on 15th April, 1972, when £1,504 was raised.
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Shielding themselves from the cold and wet, determined and enthusiastic RNLI supporters assemble for the naming ceremony of the Lady of Hilbre by HRH The Duke of Kent. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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IN the early part of March next, it is intended to hold a Public Dinner, in the City, in aid of the funds of the above Institution, and for the purpose of bringing the Society and its objects prominently before the country. His Grace the...
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from page 17 married James Ritchie, whose family were the owners of the brewery Heron and Brearley, and she has stayed for a lifetime. Her present home, not far from the boathouse, looks out over Ramsey Bay, and as the years have gone by her...
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Last year the Institution had a deficit of nearly £124,000, and the figures for revenue and expenditure at the end of the first six months of the present year indicate that in 1967 there is every likelihood of an even larger deficit. At...
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The 52ft Arun lifeboat Richard Evans at her naming. In background. Galway's 52ft Burnett lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke. photographs by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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Margate: (Left) With the floor broken up by waves, inside of lifeboat house stands open to the sea. - View image in PDF
Slipway can be seen on left. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Christopher Fright. - View image in PDF
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