Lowestoft, Suffolk. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coastguard learnt that a dinghy had capsized about a mile off shore at Gorton and that her crew were clinging to her. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing...
DINGHIES AND CANOES IN TROUBLE IN CHOPPY SEA Swanage, Dorset. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a fibre-glass dinghy with an outboard motor was in difficulties on Peveril Ledge, but...
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His Royal Highness The DUKE OT CORNWALL AND YORK, K.O.
PRESIDENT OF THE AUXILIARIES— H.R.H. The DUCHESS OF CORNWALL AND YORK.
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RAC/RNLI The RAC has joined forces with the RNLI to promote safety on the road and at sea. As well as publicising a wide range of local, regional, national and business-linked fundraising activities, the RAC is offering RNLI supporters...
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RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: a radio controlled scale model of the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham has been presented to Great Yarmouth and Gorleston station branch.
It was made by David Sissons (r), an early member of the... - View image in PDF
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FUND RAISING Advertising pencils, superb ballpens, combs, diaries, each gold stamped Lifeboat name, etc., raise funds, quickly easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples from Northern Novelties, Bradford BD1 3HE.
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THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act, of life-saving in 1953 has been won by Coxswain HughNelson,ofDonagha- dee, County Down. The award has been made for the service to the Princess Victoria on the 31st of Jan- uary, 1953, when the...
Category: Awards
A Sea King helicopter from 202 squadron RAF Brawdy flies past the naming ceremony site at Tenby on September 29, 1986, in salute to the station's new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, RFA Sir Galahad. A description of the proceedings can be... - View image in PDF
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