and more books continued from page 179 Standing Into Danger Two Hundred Years of Lifeboat Service in the River Tay and St Andrews Bay by Andrew Jeffrey published by the Dundee Branch of the RNLI at £8.95 ISBN 0-9527568-0-3 This...
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Obvarte.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, It mlnnte letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness." Reverie.—Three...
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0 Young World Productions, London, have produced a punch-out model and painting book covering old and new life-boats of R.N.L.I.
interest. Copies are obtainable from Life-boat House, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I,...
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Tony Purnell talks to David Cowper following his two circumnavigations in an ex-RNLI lifeboat At the London Boat Show in January 1991, David Cowper was named Yachtsman of the Year. The award recognised a number of sailing achievements,...
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THE LIFEGUARDS Thanks on Vellum Lifeguard Mirk John ion lor his 'courage, determination in heavy surf conditions ar d professional efficiency ' Chiel Executive's LeTter of Thanks Lifeguard Alan Wheeler for tus 'courage,...
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Lee shore FOLLOWING THE SIGHTING of a red flare in Dovercourt Bay by the BR sea freight liner. Thames Coastguard telephonedthe honorary secretary of Walton and Frinton lifeboat station and the deputy launching authority of Harwich lifeboat...
Donaghadee, Co. Down, and Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—13th July. Aeroplane down, and crew picked up by steamer.
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St Ives - Mersey class The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 41) The importance of the naming ceremony for St Ives' Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41) was recognised by the weather, which slipped in a warm,...
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NORTH WEST DISTRICT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 6.40 p.m. on 3oth May, 1967, it was learned that a boy, who had fallen off the Great Orme, would have to be taken off by boat as it would be very difficult to haul him up the cliff face....
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