SUPPORT CONTINUES TO COME in from Amateur Swimming Association clubs for our appeal to organise sponsored swims to raise funds for the RNLI. To help clubs who arrange their programmes well in advance the swim can be arranged at any time over...
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(Below) After a tour round HQ offices, most people called in the committee room to look for souvenirs.. - View image in PDF
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2: Receive From Her Crew A Heaving Line To Bring Wire Through Ruffle Hole In Boat's Forefoot. - View image in PDF
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HRH The Duke of Kent makes his address before presenting the awards in the Royal Festival Hall.. - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 30th of November, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard reported that the S.S.
Hudson Bay, of London, had signalled that a man on board had fractured a thigh. She...
'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...
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Frank Kilroy. in his other role as curator of the Lytham lifeboat museum, explains to HRH The Duke of Kent about the display of artefacts from the wreck of the Mexico. - View image in PDF
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TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — As the s.s. Robert Watson Boyd, of North Shields, coal laden for Constantinople, was going to sea at about 7 A.M. on the 22nd March, her steering gear broke down, she became unmanageable, and drifted on to the...
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 8.14 p.m.
on 13th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties one and a half miles from the look-out.
The life-boat Susan Ashley...
Wessex HAR Mk 5 from HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-the-Solent, piloted by Lt Kay Colborne on exercise with Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour) Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II. In command of the ILB is Helmsman Adrian West, and with him are Crew Members... - View image in PDF
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