Fred Walkington (I.) and Brian Bevan. Fred Walkington joined Bridling ton lifeboat crew in 1965 and was appointed coxswain in 1975; he was awarded the bronze medal in 1979. Brian Bevan was a member of Bridlington lifeboat crew from 1967 to... - View image in PDF
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His Grace The Duke of Atholl As this issue of the Lifeboat was going to press we learned with great sadness of the death on 27 February 1996 of His Grace The Duke of Atholl, a tireless supporter of the Institution for almost 40...
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 11.45 a.m. on 27th August, 1964, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a small skiff was in difficulties i% miles north-west of St. Ives Head. At 11.50 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle...
ST HELIER, JERSEY, August 23, 1987: the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King takes in tow the 48ft cabin cruiser La Belle Dame after a MAYDAY alert, when the Shoreham-based vessel hit the Hinguette reef at 1418 and began to sink....
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held an 'After Dinner at Eight' wine and savouries evening in June at the home of Mrs Margaret Adams (I.) at Herring fleet, St Olaves, to celebrate the presentation of a fund-raising... - View image in PDF
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During the night of the 25th September, the schooner Oathrina, of Biga, stranded on the Aber- tay Banks, which lie to the eastward of the entrance to the River Tay. At 4 A.M. her signals of distress were observed from the shore. It was then...
The longest loaf in the world: Coventry Mercia Round Table, giving effect to an idea by Tom Commander, was responsible in 1975 for a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records, and for the raising of about £4,000 for the... - View image in PDF
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Mr Rumbold serves up the winners Nicholas Smith, alias Mr Rumbold in the BBC television comedy programme 'Are You Being Served?', picked the winning tickets in the RNLI's 77th lottery on 30 April 1997.
Nicholas...
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — At 11.23 in the morning of the 14th of October, 1951, pilots reported that a yacht with a body in tow was off Shoreham, and needed help. At 11.28 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in calm...
• The Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms has been abridged by Ian Dean- —himself a keen sailor—from the classic work by Peter Kemp, Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. The slim volume, published by Oxford University Press, price...
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