The Arun class lifeboat Marie Winstone at her rededication ceremony in Torbay. Soon afterwards she was called away on a service to search for a missing diver and the ceremony had to proceed without her!. - View image in PDF
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September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland lifeboat. Tommy first became a ere w member at North Sunderland in 1927, where in 1939 he became bowman. In 1951 he was appointed second coxswain and in 1955 was appointed coxswain, a...
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The Princess Roval, HRH the Princess Anne meets pupils from the Clerkenwell Parochial School, dressed in authentic Victorian costume, at the launching of the Grace Darling Appeal, intended to raise enough money for a new lifeboat for North... - View image in PDF
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RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, is always keen to get in the thick of it and get his hands dirty - and recently he got thrown about and drenched when he tried his hand at shearwater rafting.. - View image in PDF
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Captain R. L. Harriet, R.N., the depu:y chief inspector of life-boats, who was called up to the Navy at the outbreak of war, has won the D.S.O., "for courage and resource in successful attacks on enemy submarines".
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On the other hand, in rewards and other payments to its crews and launchers, the Institution spent in 1941 more than ever before. It spent nearly £70,000. In the war it has been spending, in payments to those on the coast engaged in the...
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(Left) The local lifeboat entry for the cavalcade which opened Alderney Week 1977. Mrs N. J. Allen leads the RNLI team in Alderney, which, with an island population of about 1,750, has contributed £4,340 to Guernsey branch funds over... - View image in PDF
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Visitors to the Boat Show clamber aboard the Severn class lifeboat for closer inspection. - View image in PDF
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(left) The photograph used to illustrate the Thames class in 'Lifeboat Classes - a Spotter's Guide' in the Autumn issue of The Lifeboat showed the class in its original form. Modifications were carried out which changed the... - View image in PDF
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Ths beautiful setting of Longstock Water Gardens is set to raise funds for the RNLI. - View image in PDF
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