H.M. The Queen Inspecting the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Life-Boat Crew During the Royal Tour of the Island Which She Made In July, Accompanied By the Duke of Edinburgh, Who Is Seen Below With the Crew of the IRB. - View image in PDF
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COntents news including 6 top RNLi AWARds Chetham’s School of Music and Walls’ ice cream stand proudly alongside three gallant lifesavers 7 BUsiest yeAR yet Record rescues and record income in 2006 9 LifeBoAt oN sHoW foR 100 yeARs The...
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MILESTONE IN HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL' RNU magazine's 500th issueLONDON lay beneath a blanket of snow and the normal clatter of carriages pulling up outside 20 John Street, Adelphi (just off The Strand) was muffled by its glistening...
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Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...
FROM FAIREY... THREE KINDS OF LIFEBOATS FOR THREE KINDS OF CONDITIONS.
All built to the highest standards. Standards that have made Fairey justifiably famous as lifeboat builders.
All three have all...
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Expenditure.
Life-boats :— £ s. d. £ s. d.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aith, Broughty Ferry, Cromer, Gourdon, Hythe, Ilfra- combe, North Sunderland...
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Harwell Apprentice Training School raised £355 for the lifeboats by winning the 24-hour pedal race at Bristol last February; the team finished first in afield of 24, beating its nearest rival by eight miles. Mrs Wendy Nelson, RO (South)... - View image in PDF
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(top) Visitors swarm aboard 17-24, a new Trent class which was un-named at the time but which will become Dora Foster McDougall and be allocated to the relief fleet. Astern of her was the Severn 17-11, The Whiteheads which will be allocated... - View image in PDF
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CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...
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Hayling Island - double silver medal service, 25 October 1992. The photograph shows the difficult and hazardous conditions in which the rescue took place.
Coastguard helicopter attempting to pass a hi-line to the crew of... - View image in PDF
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