ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 12 1980: 1,215 people rescued; nearly £12 million raisedTUESDAY MAY 12 was the day of the RNLI's 1981 annual general meeting of the governors and annual presentation of awards and, as usual...
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A 24-MiNUTE film on the life-boat service, Part-Time Heroes, won a silver cup presented by the Ministry of Naval Defence when shown this year at a review of maritime docu- mentaries during the Milan Fair.
The film shows a...
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IN pointing out at the annual meeting in London on 8th April, 1970, that the operational record of the life-boat and inshore rescue boat crews had been a triumphant one, the Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir...
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JUNE 2ND. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.
At about 4.10 P.M. a message came that a rowing boat with two persons on board wasin difficulties in Youghal Bay. The wind was due east and increasing, with a ground swell, and the boat was...
Henry 'Joyful' West, BEM, retired as coxswain of Sheringham lifeboat at the end of 1984 after a long and distinguished career. He is a man who would rather talk about the achievements of others than his own, but the 'Joyful'...
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Girvan, Ayrshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that local fishing boats were returning to the har- bour in a rough sea and a strong north- north-west wind, and that conditions at the...
(continued from page 12) accorded to Coxswain Ronald J. Hardy and Emergency Mechanic Phillip J.
Dorey. Vellum service certificates were presented to Second Coxswain/Motor Mechanic Victor A. C. Marsh, Assistant Mechanic Eric...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1954 79,058 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1954 has been one on which the Life-boat...
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Jan. 1,1861.—The brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham, was wrecked on the "Whitley Sands, Northumberland, during a strong gale, with a heavy sea and showers of snow and sleet. .The Cullercoats life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was...
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Figureheads were a feature of this fishermen's hut (left) which once stood near the harbour mouth at Lowestoft, Suffolk. The figureheads shown below portray (left to right) William IV, the Sailor King1; a woman who once adorned the bow... - View image in PDF
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