With the help of Venice Simplon-Orient-Express we have a journey of a lifetime for the winner of the Winter lifeboat lottery - a trip for two on the glamorous Orient-Express, plus £400 spending money.. - View image in PDF
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had already arrived, so joined their colleagues for a 'hard sell'. The excitement grew. We put up a notice telling the public of our aim. We wrote boldly the number now needed, periodically crossing it out and substituting the new...
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RNLI volunteers, staff and supporters collecting for London lifeboat week. - View image in PDF
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Wendy Craig draws the winning ticket for the Volvo. - View image in PDF
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THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
‘The cause is individual, national, and universal … The people and vessels of every nation, whether in peace or in war, [are] to be equally objects of this Institution …’
They are the words of Sir William Hillary, who...
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Bude's new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat in the surf close to shore during a training exercise shortly after her arrival on station.
The Evans/Avon EA 16 lifeboat has a 40hp outboard engine and a top speed of 20... - View image in PDF
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Aberdeen.—At 2.11 early on the morning of the 29th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that he had heard long and short blasts on a siren from a vessel near the harbour or lighthouse. He later stated that the lighthouse keeper...
(Right) Cyril Watts, with his wife Rita, on board Centaur 731, Eilean Sitheil, in which last summer he completed a sponsored circumnavigation of Britain, starting from the Bristol Channel; he expects to raise £1,000 for the RNLI. Mr... - View image in PDF
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To commemorate Tynemouth lifeboat station's centenary, in 1962, a stained glass window was dedicated in Christ Church, North Shields. It depicts the Original, 1789, Constance, on station in 1862,... - View image in PDF
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