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Shoreline
Insignia You may not be aware of the various insignia available exclusively to you. The picture (r) will show you what you may be missing: a hoist flag . . . a Shoreline tie ... a marcasite brooch . . . a sweat shirt? Not in the picture is...
Category: Articles
Ira (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. On I4th February, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary was asked by the agents of the trawler Ira to lay an anchor and stand by while an attempt was made to refloat the vessel. At noon the life-boat...
Amble Harbour Day
Amble harbour day gained magnificent support from the local community with over £5,000 resulting from the branch and guild's efforts. The North East Windsurfers' Association raised over £2,000 of this total with their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left: Air Crewman Chic Pritchard Prepares For A Helicopter Winching Exercise With Padstow Lifeboat Volunteers
Left: Air Crewman Chic Pritchard prepares for a helicopter winching exercise with Padstow lifeboat volunteers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Classified Advertisements
Classified Advertisements FUND RAISING Advertising pencils, superb ballpens, combs, diaries, each gold stamped Lifeboat name, etc., raise funds, quickly easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples from Northern Novelties, Bradford BD1...
Category: Advertisement
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY-, 1st June, 1871: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SUNSHINE greeted lifeboat people from all parts of the country who began to gather on South Bank, by the River Thames, early on Tuesday May 11 for what was to be a most moving and memorable day.
It was a day which...
Category: Awards
Four Double Rescues
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...
Category: Services
Don, of Jersey
On the 10th November the Joseph Anstice, the Life- boat of this station, in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Don, of Jersey, put off to her assistance. A very heavy gale was blowing from the north, and darkness coming on soon...
Headcase
The RNLI first issued protective helmets to their Waveney class lifeboat crews in the 1960's At some four knots faster than the older classes of 8 or 9 knot double-ended lifeboats, some concern was expressed about crew members'...
Category: Articles