COLLECTIVE AWARD TO COXSWAIN AND CREW On the 8th of December, 1962, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat rescued one man and landed two men, two women and two children from the Dutch motor vessel Temar. For this service the thanks of the...
When Col. J. T. Benn, the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands, attended the annual meeting of the Caister-on-Sea branch in Norfolk, he presented a silver badge to Miss Alice Brown, a vice president of the Caister ladies'... - View image in PDF
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 NOTES OF THE QUARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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The Scarborough 37-foot Oakley life-boat /. G. Groves of Sheffield whose coxswain recently wrote to Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A.,the life-boat designer, who fast year retired from full-time service with the Institution, to tell him... - View image in PDF
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Mr. A. W. Hawkes, of Waldringfield, Suffolk, has been 'bottling' life-boats for quite a time. The three models shown here cover the period 1890 to the introduction of the 70-foot steel life-boat. Mr. Hawkes writes: 'Putting boats... - View image in PDF
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. . . the technical development of new lifeboats: (right) the latest 52ft Arun lifeboat, Duchess of Kent, the gift of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England and destined for the relief fleet. The CRp-hul/ed Arun is the largest and... - View image in PDF
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Members of Wells lifeboat crew were invited to a special RNLI evening held by Cambridge Motor Boat Club. Here the club's commodore. Bob Foote (I), is seen presenting a cheque for £175 to Coxswain David Cox of Wells. His cousin, Crew... - View image in PDF
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(Right) The final Hampshire Rose Appeal cheque, for £3,300 bringing the grand total to £71,400, was presented by Sir Alec Rose, chairman of the Appeal Committee, to Anthony Oliver, district organising secretary (South), on October... - View image in PDF
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(Below) Members ofHuddersfield ladies' lifeboat luncheon club visited Flamborough this summer to take part with members of Flamborough ladies' guild and luncheon club in a memorial service to the late Mrs Mabel Greenhalgh, first... - View image in PDF
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The bottle of champagne falls: Ralph and Joy Swann, Ramsgate's new 44' Waveney lifeboat, was named by HRH The Duchess of Kent on Thursday, September 23, 1976. Hampshire Rose, Walmer's 37' 6" Rother lifeboat, with Sir... - View image in PDF
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