About £.3,000 was raised for the RNLI by the pro-am golf tournament at Notts Golf Club, May 29. Last team to tee off was Hugh Baiocchi and Duncan Lee (left) and Dr David Marsh and Henry Cooper (right).. - View image in PDF
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Below decks (this is looking through the engine room) the additional size of the prototype is obvious - as is the amount of plumbing, piping and wiring needed to provide a reliable All-weather lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.57 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the Norwegian vessel Pan had engine trouble six miles south-east of Dun- cansby Head and needed help imme- diately. The life-boat City...
Children at the 217-pupil infant school at Marston Green, managed to raise £50 for the RNLI and have also bought souvenirs amounting to £150.
The photograph shows a group of the children presenting a cheque for... - View image in PDF
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TOW FOR YACHT IN GALE St. Helier, Jersey. At 5.7 on the afternoon of the 6th August, 1962, the harbour radio station informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was believed to have capsized about two miles south of Demie de Pas lighthouse,...
THE first Life-boat Station was estab- lished in Ireland, at Arklow, in 1826, two years after the foundation of the Institu- tion itself, and since then the Institution has continued to maintain the Life-boats on the Irish coast, where it...
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Martell continues to help the RNLI by not only supplying free brandy for the survival kit on board every lifeboat, but also by donating US gallon bottles of brandy for branches to raffle.
During the past few months such... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Ann Maxwell, chairman of Norton RNLI in the branch's rent-free shop. (Photo Yorkshire Regional Newspapers Ltd). - View image in PDF
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THE Institution wishes to express its thanks to the following firms who, in the past year, have supplied certain stores for life-boats without charge: Biscuit manufacturers: Huntley and Palmers, Ltd., Read- ing.
W. and R....
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THE past year up to within the last ten days of September was a singularly uneventful one as regards Life-boat work; in fact, on the 22nd September the number of lives rescued by the Life-boats only totalled 65, and had the weather continued...
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