(Top) The Youth Promotion display extolls the virtues of joining Storm Force and becoming involved at school, while (above) the sales stall is as busy as usual.. - View image in PDF
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The RNLI reached an important milestone in December when its first rescue hovercraft went on station at Morecambe on the north west coast. The Lifeboat takes an in-depth look at this exciting new addition to the fleet.'It's a lot...
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Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff are needed to provide back-up to the RNLI’s lifesavers – so how does the charity find the right people for the job?
‘The Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches...
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LAST December the Institution received from Mr. F. 0. Brown, of Bedford Park, London, a cheque for £28 10s., the amount which he had collected during the year in his Life-boat box. At the same time, he said that owing to ill- health...
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A 100-foot length of Avon inflatable tendering bent and anchored across the mouth of Little Venice, London, to contain the oil slick.. - View image in PDF
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The fleet approaching Plymouth, HMS Walkerton at its head: (left to right) Patron Emil Guyot (France), Arwed Emminghaus, Sigurd Golje, Monsun, City of Bristol and R. S. Platou.. - View image in PDF
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(Right) Rebecca Marsh, daughter of Victor Marsh, presents to the Duke a silver model of boat and boathou.ie mounted on a Purbeck marble base.. - View image in PDF
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About 11.40 on the morning of the 31st July, 1962, an 11-foot dinghy capsized about a mile north-west of St.
Helens fort off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. There were three people aboard, a Mr. Gleave and his eleven-...
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Cromer, Norfolk. At 1.51 on the afternoon of the 2nd of February, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a very sick man on board the S.S. Hudson Bank and a doctor was needed. The steamer was expected to be off...