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Around 95% of our people are volunteers, generously giving up their time while juggling family life, work, hobbies and other commitments. The ways they help are as diverse as they are essential, so we asked four very different...
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News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI At the Sharp End Vellum awards and a selection of lifeboat services from around the country Your Letters Your views on lifeboats and related subjects Homeward Bound Join the Divisional...
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Feature: Come Together
On the morning of Thursday 20 May a coach set off early from RNLI HQ in Poole, full of excited and ever-so-slightly nervous RNLI staff. They were destined for the Barbican Hall in London and a day of rare celebration. They were to Literally...
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Notes of the Quarter
GUESTS OF HONOUR at the annual presentation of awards meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15 in this the RNLI's 160th anniversary year was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the Institution....
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People and Places
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bar to Gold Badges and 55 Gold Badges. Each of the following entries states the dates of the first and latest...
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A Sponsored Silence Organised By Skegness Ladies' Guild Was Undertaken By 72 Local Children and Raised £534 the First Three Prize Winners Michelle Hilton Emma
A sponsored silence, organised by Skegness ladies' guild, was undertaken by 72 local children and raised £534. The first three prize winners, Michelle Hilton, Emma Ruston and Wendy Balderson, between them raised £68. They were... - View image in PDF
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
On the closing of the Blackrock life-boat station the following awards were made : DANIEL SMITH, 1 year coxswain and 10J years second coxswain, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service, and a pension.
JAMES STANLEY, 1 year...
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Nostalgia Direct (DEPT. LB1)
AVAILABLE ON 2 TAPES OR 2 CDs BANDS OF THE uriJONI ARMY 40 ALL TIME FAVOURITES The sight of the familiar blue uniforms of a Salvation Army Band in a residential street on a Sunday morning is part of the British scene.
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Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson
The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...
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Your shout
The Editor responds:
Great minds think alike Mr Dean! See page 46. And from this quarter, all seven versions of Compass are available online too at...
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