OCTOBER 1988: Mr F. Adsetts. president of the Bolsover Branch from 1976 to 1988..
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Mrs J. A. Pattullo, former honorary secretary of Edinburgh Ladies' lifeboat guild from 1962 to 1970 and founder of the lifeboat shop.
Mrs Pattullo was awarded a Gold Badge in 1970, having joined the guild's...
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Harry Wright has won The Royal Bank of Scotland prize draw for £2,000.. - View image in PDF
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Gold medallion The photograph below shows a 15-carat gold 'Lifeboat Saturday' medallion of 1895 from Manchester and Salf ord which was awarded to the 'Whalley Range C.C.' as first prize in the cyclists and harriers fancy... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Lottery The £1M barrier has been broken! The Winter 2006 Lifeboat Lottery brought in more than £1M, making the final income for the year £3.9M. This is a magnificent total and more than half as much again as that for...
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A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
The RNLI has signed a new deal with the ChinaRescue and Salvage Bureau (CRS).
The deal builds on the agreement that has been in place between the two organisations for the past 5 years, which saw 20 ex-RNLI lifeboats make...
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JUNE 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT, The life-boat rendered assistance after a French warship had been mined, and landed sixty five French sailors who had been rescued by another ship. Later she went out again, with a naval officer on board, and...
The schooner Sally Green, of Liverpool, stranded near this life-boat station during a fresh gale from E.S.E. on the 30th April. She would probably have previously sunk and become a total wreck, had not the Sophia life-boat gone off to her,...
MAY 11TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off South Shore, Blackpool, but later it was found that she had made a landing on the Southport side of the...