Not wanting to see a bumper crop of apples from the garden go to waste, Harriet Masser from Windsor made herself a poster, washed all the apples and placed them in a basket on her doorstep, asking passers-by to put donations for the RNLI... - View image in PDF
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It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...
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Suitable arrangements: just one of the 20 displays at the Festival of Howers organised by Stowmarket and Needham Market branch with the help of Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft lifeboat stations. The festival was a four-day event and as... - View image in PDF
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The Sir William Hillary to which Mr Hills refers below was the RNLI'sfirst 'fast' lifeboat. Designed largely for rapid response in the event of an aircraft crash, she was 64ft long and powered by two 375hp petrol engines giving a... - View image in PDF
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Mrs P Whateley Bude chairman. Mrs Whateley served the guild for over 40 years, becoming secretary in 1971 and treasurer in 1976.
She was president of the station branch from 1982 until her death. She was awarded the Silver...
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Burry Port crew member Ryan Griffiths (right) had a hard time convincing fellow crew member Jeremy Williams that they had shared the workload equally after the crew had taken part in a low-water exercise along the very muddy Welsh coast. {In... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 27TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
Two aeroplanes had collided and fallen in Blackpool, and two airmen had been seen to fall into the sea, but nothing could be found. After the return of the life-boat a party of...
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A steamer had struck a mine, but she had sunk by the time the life-boat arrived.
The life-boat was then asked by a destroyer to search for a boat containing seven of...
A woman in Leeds has given to the Life-boat Service her first week's old age pension. A London mother has sent it a pound in gratitude for the safe journey of her children across the sea. A boy in Ilford has sent it half-a-ctovm which he...
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The Institution has just received two legacies of £200 each, one for its general funds the other for its Selsey station, left it in gratitude by a Birmingham woman. In August 1908 she was on board the steamer "Queen" of...
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