Lowestoft: A trimaran on passage from Wells to Ramsgate was reported making water fast on Sunday August 6. Lowestoft's 47ft Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick launched at 0554 and reached the casualty at 0750. Three people were taken... - View image in PDF
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Standard bearer and ILB: The bonds between Guides and lifeboat service were drawn even closer by the dedication at Hartlepool, Cleveland, on April 24 of Guide Friendship III, the third Atlantic 21 given to the Institution by Guides, Rangers... - View image in PDF
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. . . First service of Aberdeen's new lifeboat, the 54' Arun BP Forties, on July 28, was to Peterhead fishing boat Westerdale, which reported flooding in her engine room. BP Forties reached Westerdale, 38 miles offshore east of... - View image in PDF
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The Executive Committee of the RNLI meeting in the old committee room at 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, where the lifeboat service has had its headquarters since the early 1930's. Fairly shortly the RNLI will be controlled from its new... - View image in PDF
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Geoff Mears, second coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, and Bill Parkhouse, area manager of Watney's, push over a column of two pence pieces at the Exeter Inn, Topsham.
Worth £515.96l/2 (£463.56 around the column in... - View image in PDF
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Donaghadee's future lifeboat (in foreground, left) is one of four steel-hulled 44' Waveneys building at Bideford Shipyard, North Devon. When this photograph was taken, in January, her aluminium alloy deck plates were being offered up... - View image in PDF
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Atlantis Adventure makes fast in the safety of Baltimore Harbour after being given assistance by the town's relief Tyne class lifeboat. The 60ft sailing vessel had run into difficulties south of Fastnet Rock in a rough sea with a swell... - View image in PDF
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Rye Harbour: The remains of the Tiger Moth whose crew of two were rescued by Rye's D class inflatable lifeboat on August 27 (see right). photograph by courtesy of Mary Lestocq. - 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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Bobby Lee, BEM, coxswain of the Douglas lifeboat from 1950 to 1970. On one of his first services as coxswain, in April 1950, Bobby Lee rescued ten men from Mary Heely.. - View image in PDF
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