Aerial view of a 52' Barnett ? No, a close-up detail of a working model made by R.
Sellwood of Reading and District branch. It took 3,000 hours to build and is used to raise funds, both at shows and in the Reading... - View image in PDF
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At the Harwich naming ceremony (left to right) Captain H. W. T. Owen, Chief Superintendent of Trinity House and chairman of the local branch; Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E, Secretary of the R.N.L.I.; the Mayoress of Harwich; Capt G.... - View image in PDF
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At a ceremony at Silloth on Sunday June 7, County Councillor J. Ormond Holliday, vice-president of Silloth branch, opened the station's new tractor house and then Silloth's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, principally... - View image in PDF
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Around and about the RNLI Good Times in the London marathon Tony Williamson, the chairman of Littlehampton Branch is a keen marathon runner, and has already raised £1,300 for the Shoreham Lifeboat appeal when he competed in the New York...
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Launches 50 Lives rescued 23
DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.43 in the morning the coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, that she was...
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Jan. 4.—Two men put off in a coastguard boat and rescued the crew of three men of the barge Dewdrop, of Portsmouth, which had foundered in Langston Harbour, Hampshire, in a moderate gale from the S. W. and a rough sea—Reward....
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THE twenty-eighth Annual Sleeting of this most important Society, established by the Bi iti-.h public to relieve Shipwrecked Sailors of all Nations, when cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held on the 8th May, at Willis's...
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Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....
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On the 28th September, 1929, the Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued the crew, twenty in number, of a cutter belonging to H.M.S. Marl- borough. In appreciation of this service the Canteen Fund of H.M.S. Marlborough has given £22 to the...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: January 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: February 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: November 7 Alderney, Channel Islands Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1002: January 28 Amble, Northumberland 44ft Waveney ON...
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