(Right) From lifeboat crew to helicopter crew: presentation of 150th anniversary commemorative mugs during joint exercise of Wells lifeboat and RAF Coltishall helicopters.
More than 20,000 of these anniversary mugs made by... - View image in PDF
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Five members of Rayners Lane branch raised more than £300 in a six-mile sponsored canoe paddle on the Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire on Saturday June 19—and it rained! The team took it in turn to paddle the canoe, generously donated... - View image in PDF
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Shoreline club no. 13, at Rochford, gives tremendous, regular help to the local branch. The club's 1984 annual pram race, in which 14 teams called at eight pubs to drink half a pint at each, raised £200 for Rochford branch. The race... - View image in PDF
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Friendly rivalry: Kim Robertson (right) challenged Mick Hewitt to a 100 yard electric wheelchair race along the promenade as part of Walton and Frinton's lifeboat week. The race was started by a hooter blown by Coxswain Denis Finch and... - View image in PDF
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THE GLASGOW Lewis and Harris Association Cup, presented annually to the person or persons who during the year had done most to bring credit or honour to the island, was awarded last year to Coxswain Calum MacDonald and the crew of Stornoway...
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WE ARE DELIGHTED to be able to publish below a photograph of the lifeboatmen of Blyth, the port at which the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed; and on page 81 is reported a fine service in which both Shoreline and...
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Help us to raise £5000 fortheRNLI COALPORT A Limited Edition of2500 The Grace Darling Mug Honouring one and a half centuries of heroism at sea.
Now a legend forever - Grace Darling faced a wild and furious sea to save...
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HEROIC. Help us to raise £5000 fortheRNLI •WT.CE HORSLEY DARn The reverse of the mug The Grace Darling Mug Honouring one and a half centuries of heroism at sea.
Now a legend forever - Grace Darling faced a wild and...
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ON another page we record one of the most fearful catastrophes that has ever happened on the seas. The burning of the emigrant ship Austria, with 528 persons on board, of whom no less than 471 were drowned, suffocated, or burned to death.<...
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DORNOCH FIRTH, SUTHERLANDSHIRE.— In January, 1886, the Local Residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat establishment on the shores of Dornoch Firth, a shipwreck having oc- curred there in the previous month, and...
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