On November 2 a delegation from the Spanish Red Cross of the Sea lifeboat society paid a goodwill visit to RNLI HQ and depot at Poole, going on the next day to visit Lymington and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat stations and the ILB depot... - View image in PDF
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A lifeboat queen . ..: 16-year-old Jane Wilson was crowned by Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough ladies' guild gala in July. With her are three of her attendants, Pat Wilkinson and Bridget and Andrea Waud; the fourth attendant, Stephanie... - View image in PDF
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(Above) Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the RNLI Medina class lifeboat, visited the liner ss Canberra in Southampton Docks last July, taking out Commodore F. B.
Woolley, Deputy Captain Ian Gibb and other P and O... - View image in PDF
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Peter Gilson presents Percy Garon(l.) with the launching hammer he has wielded so many times. Also there, second from right, Michael Pennell, divisional inspector of lifeboats, east, representing all the coast staff who, over the years, have... - View image in PDF
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(Above, left) Exmoiith's third lifeboat, Victoria, a 32ft self-righter pulling ten oars double-hanked, was on station from 1867 to 1884, during which time she rescued 15 people.
In one gale she was hauled on her... - View image in PDF
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Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 7.42 in the evening on the 25th June, 1952, a R.A.F. Shackleton bomber crashed into the sea seven and a half miles north-east of Emmanuel Head, Holy Island. The life-boat J....
APPENDICITIS PATIENT Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.30 a.m.
on 4th January, 1964, a ship's agent in Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S. Doriefs of Monrovia had on board a sick man suffering from...
The Humber, Yorkshire.—20th April, 1939. An aeroplane was thought to have crashed into the sea, but it was found that she came down on land.— Permanent paid crew: Rewards, 6s..
NOVEMBER 28TH . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A minesweeper had struck a mine and sank, but the crew were picked up by another minesweeper. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 6s. 9d.
NOVEMBER 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 4s.. 6d.