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Southsea In Hampshire.
The above photograph was sent in by a RNLI member who spotted this colourful 175 flag design bedding at Southsea in Hampshire. The display was the result of much hard work on behalf of the Portsmouth and Southsea guild. Photo: WJ... - View image in PDF
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Albert Sutherland (Above)
Albert Sutherland (above) the recently appointed coxswain at Fraserburgh. - View image in PDF
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Front Cover
Celebrating 175 years of the RNLI. Today's Tyne class contrasts with a nine-knot Oakley and a pulling lifeboat from the early years of the 20th century, while one of the early D class lifeboats gives a hint of things to... - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (6)
MAY 9TH.. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea off the Lincolnshire coast, but only wreckage was found. Two shoreboats also took part in the search. (See “ Services by Shoreboats,” Mablethorpe,...
An Aeroplane (21)
SEPT. 25TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in thechannel between Hastings and Le Treport.
No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the...
A Steamer (10)
DEC. 2ND. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer was thought to be in distress fifteen to twenty miles from Bridlington, but the life-boat found that a derelict, with a cargo of oil, had been sunk by the Admiralty. and the oil...
David Brann
'If the campaign succeeds in only encouraging an additional 2% of the population to remember a charity in their will, it would provide the voluntary sector with an extra £170m every year. That's more than the income generated by... - View image in PDF
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Prinses Irene
NOVEMBER 9TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. The Dutch motor vessel Prinses Irene, of Groningen, had gone ashore at Point of Ayre, but the weather moderated, and the life-boat was not needed. The vessel got off later. - Rewards, £12...
Silver Medal for Barra Island.
Coxswain Murdo Sinclair, of Barra Island in the Outer Hebrides, has been awarded the silver medal for taking the life-boai 4o miles in a southerly gale and rescuing fifteen lives from a steamer which had been wrecked under the cliff* of Skye...
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