ACKERGILL, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — A telegram having been received on the 2nd Jan., 1903, from Keiss Village, that a vessel had run aground on the sands, the Life-boat Jonathan Marshall, Sheffield, was launched shortly after 11 A.M., and...
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As part ofNewquay's very full fund-raising programme the ladies of the guild join in the town's floral dance. When Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham visited Cornwall in June he presented a joint statuette to Michael and Pauline Morris: he... - View image in PDF
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ON TRIAL - FAST AFLOAT BOAT PROTOTYPE TAKES TO THE WATER The RNLI must always have an eye of sea rescue many years ahead. 0 latest design of Fast Afloat Boat (R is designed to achieve even highi retaining - and even imprc standards of I...
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at the annual meeting of the R. N.L.I.
on 18th May, Mr. Derek Scott, of Mumbles, who holds the B.E.M., the Institution's silver medal and bar and the bronze medal, belongs to the new generation of life-boatmen. He was...
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Thursday, 18th October, 1928.
The HON. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Appointed Lieut.-Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., a District Inspector of Lifeboats.
Decided that, for...
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After opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19, HRH the Duke of Kent flew by helicopter to Sennen Cove, Conwall, to name Diana White, Semen's new 37' 6" Rather lifeboat. Nigel Warington Smyth, OBE, a vice-president... - View image in PDF
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"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.
Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...
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ON the closing of the Burnham Life-boat Station the following awards were made :— To FREDERICK J. KING, who served for 5 1/2 years as Coxswain, 4 1/2 years as Bowman, and previously 30 years as a member of the Crew, a Coxswain's...
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WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
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A new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was handed over at Queensferry, Firth of Forth, on August 29, 1981. The gift of Major Basil R. F. Mac Nay in memory of his mother, Mrs Constance MacNay, she was received on behalf of the RNLI by Mr W. F. G. Lord,... - View image in PDF
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