(Below) When The Right Hon The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Anthony Jolliffe, CBE was in Weymouth during the summer, he visited the lifeboat station and was shown all over the 54ft Arun Tony Vandervell. He is seen here II) in the engine room... - View image in PDF
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THERE'LL be work for the Life-boat—God help it to-night, Where the foam of tiebreakers leaps np to the light.
God help it! It's ready to ride through the mist, And the men who shall man it the women have kissed.<...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeffrey Wright who, after serving for 10 years as bowman of the Fleetwood life-boat, was its coxswain from the autumn of 1933 until the end of 1947.
He won the silver medal for...
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30 years, 250 rescues later Tom Robertson, the honorary secretary of the Queensferry lifeboat station, received a presentation of binoculars and a certificate at the annual general meeting of the RNLI in Scotland, for 30 years'...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 5.31 on the evening of the 6th of July, 1957, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat needed help a mile and a half south of the harbour. The life-boat W. R. A., on temporary duty...
SINCE the great International Exhibition of 1851, promoted by the late lamented and ever-to-be-remembered PRINCE Conr- SORT, and carried to a successful termina- tion under his auspices, there have been many such exhibitions in this and...
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Amanda and Polly Ann Ball and their friends won first prize in the fancy dress competition at the Greater London Horse Show last year. They sent £2 of their prize money to Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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The lifeboat on this chart is more than £1,100 on its way down the slipway to its splash target of £2,000. This launch is being achieved by North Cormorant oil rig with the help of Mr Campbell and the rig's radio room. They are... - View image in PDF
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Lives saved.
Fayaway, smack of Ramsey .. 2 Fenham, s.S., of Sunderland— assisted to save vessel.
Fingal, four-masted barque, of Dublin 32 Fishing Boats at Cullercoats, Filey, Gourdon, ...
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