Miss Elizabeth Armitage who began fund raising for the Institution in 1955; she was chairman of Brixham ladies guild until 1978 and was president at the time of her death. Miss Armitage was a.
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August, 1987 Jack Cole, mechanic at Buckie lifeboat station. Mr Cole joined the crew as mechanic in 1943 until his retirement in 1974, being awarded the BEM in 1974..
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GirS caught in Dinghy rigging TWO PEOPLE clinging to a capsized dinghy one mile offshore, south of Towyn, were reported to Aberdovey honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 1220 on Friday, April 4.
The ILB launched at 1225....
Peter Puddiphatt (left in photo) presents Walter Baguley, the new coxswain of 'his' exlifeboat with a signed print of her launching at Sennen Cove as Diana White.. - View image in PDF
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Television personality Pam Rhodes and her daughter, Bethan, are pictured alongside a half-scale model of a Tyne class lifeboat which Hitchin branch displayed at Walsworth Festival alongside its souvenir stall.. - View image in PDF
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Her Majesty The Queen and HRH Prince Philip aboard the Mersey class Her Majesty The Queen shortly after the naming ceremony at Ramsgate.. - View image in PDF
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Below left - committee members of Dartford and district branch dress up and rattle collecting buckets at the Dartford Show. The colourful bunch managed to raise £ 114 for lifeboat funds on the day.. - View image in PDF
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Skegness crew member Andrew Parker has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Vellum for the rescue of two boys at Ingoldmells Point, near Skegness, on 31 July.. - View image in PDF
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On the 25 May 1996 a group from Flamborough, East Yorkshire, travelled to the Historical Dockyard, at Chatham to view the lifeboat collection.. - View image in PDF
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History is repeated as HRH The Duke of Kent helps launch the Sennen Cove lifeboat The Four Boys from her position at the top of the slipway.. - View image in PDF
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