Following the ceremony - Brian Sevan takes HRH The Duke of Ken! aboard the new lifeboat. Photo. Roger Jack. - View image in PDF
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Port Isaac ILB stood by while an attempt was made, on October 5, 1975, to rescue bullocks which had fallen down the cliff at Port Quin. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of E. J. Watts, Rock. - View image in PDF
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. He was appointed second coxswain in 1941 and after a break for war service became coxswain in 1947. In 1958 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for a service in which...
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Above. Just an illusion. Visitors come ashore' after an exciting ride in the Ventura simulator, glad to get their feet on solid ground again.. - View image in PDF
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AT 3.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the honorary secretary of the North Sunderland, Northumber- land, life-boat station, Mr. T. W. A.
Swallow, learnt from the coastguard that a canoe with one man in it had...
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The longest loaf in the world: Coventry Mercia Round Table, giving effect to an idea by Tom Commander, was responsible in 1975 for a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records, and for the raising of about £4,000 for the... - View image in PDF
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SMALL BOAT HELPLESS Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1947, the Lade coastguard reported a small boat flying a signal of distress about one and a half miles north-north-east of the coastguard station,...
THE Central Committee of the LIFE-BOAT SATURDAY FUND and their officers, as well as the District and Local Life-boat Satur- day Committees throughout the country, are to be heartily congratulated on the success of their efforts during the...
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When a diver was doing underwater work at the end of the North Pier, Blackpool, on 18th June, 1968, there was an explosion and he was hit by flying metal. Here a police diver is shown about to leave the Blackpool IRB during the search for... - View image in PDF
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A profit of £500 was the result of a Cockney night held by Enfield and District branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters.
The picture shows Lord Graham of Edmonton (r) and the High Chief Ranger of the Foresters Mr... - View image in PDF
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