How to clean up for the lifeboats.
Barrie Davis, studio manager of Dawson Strange Photography in Cobham (wearing Shoreline sweater) undertook to sell off in aid of the RNLI cleaning products which his firm had been... - View image in PDF
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Pictured at the start of the race are, standing left to right: Mr R. Vivian May, a member of the fund raising committee and deputy president of Bridport branch, the director and Mrs Joan Best, president of Beaminster branch. Kneeling left to... - View image in PDF
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Save-a-can for the lifeboatman. Eight-year old conservationists Paula Kelly and Mark Chapman are among 84 pupils at Gilberdyke school who collected empty tins as part of a fund raising effort for the lifeboat service. The cans went to a... - View image in PDF
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Brigg, South Humberside, ladies' guild ran a stall at the town's annual charity market on July 18, raising £135. The guild also won the runner-up prize for the best dressed stall holders—and the chairman and honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
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Members of East Devon Artists for Charity exhibited their work at Brancombe and Seaton in 1999 to raise money for the lifeboats.
The exhibitions, which involved considerable work in setting up and manning, raised the... - View image in PDF
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Musical support In November, the Forth Dimension Musical Society put on five performances of Fiddler on the Roof at South Queensferry High School in Lothian - helping to raise £180 for Queensferry lifeboat. The society put on a... - View image in PDF
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20 January: Baltimore Help was needed fast when a 20m fishing trawler lost steering near Cape Clear late at night in winds blowing force 4–5, whipping up a 3m swell. Baltimore crew were on hand and, having...
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The steamer Langton Grange, of London, a vessel of upwards of nine thousand tons register, belonging to the Houlder Line, stranded during a dense fog on the 5th August on the North Bishop Rocks.
Her signals of distress were...
The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, 1939, the watchman reported that a trawler had gone ashore on the Inner Binks. A light N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, and the weather was foggy. The motor life-boat...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1947, a message was received from the piermaster that a yacht was drifting about two miles offshore and flying distress signals. A south-south-west gale was blowing,...