Pictured: Back l-r Paul Spratt, Matthew Crow and Stewart Olley, the crew of the Vic and BHtie Whiften. Front l-r Launcher Matthew Fosset with the crew of the Ethel Royal, Michael Whistler and Tony Bonham. - View image in PDF
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An honorary Record of Thanks was presented to The Boys' Brigade in recognition of all their support of the RNLI, including their ambitious fundraising appeal for the millennium year; Lifeboats for 2000. Collecting the award was David... - View image in PDF
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FURTHER details for a midnight matinee to be held in the Spring at the Victoria Palace, London, will be included in the January, 1973, edition of THE LIFE-BOAT. The event is being run by the Central London Women's Committee under the...
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The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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CLACTON-ON-SEA.—While a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 24th January, a schooner was observed stranded on the Middle Spit Sands. The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 5.15 P.M. and sailed to the...
How do young volunteers get involved in the RNLI of the 21st century? Life is not as simple as it used to be but the charity has a solution
Historically lifeboat stations were able to casually welcome enthusiastic...
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THE fishwives of Cullercoats, Northum- berland, carried out their eleventh annual collection on behalf of the Institution, on 30th July, when the Cullercoats Life-boat had its quarterly road exercise and launch. The collec- tion was again a...
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A SECOND edition has been published of The Book of Flags (Oxford Univer- sity Press, 155.), by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., and Mr. I. O. Evans, F.R.G.S., which was first published in 1950 and reviewed in The Life-boat for...
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The speedboat Hot Banana lived up to her name on 6 July when a fire, believed to have started in the outboard engine, spread to the fuel tank and caused a major explosion.
The boat burst into flames at the entrance to... - View image in PDF
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