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The second annual raft race organised by York branch on the River Ouse was held on a sunny Saturday in July and about 40 entries mustered at the starting point, the Viking Hotel. The Lord Mayor of York and Mayoress judged all entries for the...
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A Hundred Years Ago
ON January 5th, 1847, Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hillary, Bt., the founder of the Life-boat Service, died in the Isle of Man at the age of seventy-eight. He was not only the founder of the service, but one of the greatest of its life-boatmen,...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremony at St. Ives
THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180...
Category: Inaugurations
Coxswain Hugh Nelson (Centre) and the Donaghadee Crew Who Took Part In the Service to Princess Victoria on January 31 1953 Thirty-Four Lives Were Saved By Donaghad
Coxswain Hugh Nelson (centre) and the Donaghadee crew who took part in the service to Princess Victoria on January 31, 1953. Thirty-four lives were saved by Donaghadee and Portpatrick lifeboats in winds up to hurricane... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Forty and More Entrants Set Off on Sunday October 4 for Southend-On-Sea Ladies' Guild's Second Annual Fancy Dress Sponsored Bicycle Ride Along the Seafront Fro
(Above) Forty and more entrants set off on Sunday, October 4, for Soiithend-on-Sea ladies' guild's second tinnual fancy dress sponsored bicycle ride along the seafront from Shore House, Shoebury, where Percy Caron judged the costumes... - View image in PDF
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Jilly Cooper Met Hastings Own Lifeboat Fairlight and Some of Her People: (I to R) Christine Martin Peter Thorpe Mary Shoesmith Bob Shoesmith Colin Green Joe Marti
Jilly Cooper met Hastings own lifeboat, Fairlight, and some of her people: (I. to r.) Christine Martin, Peter Thorpe, Mary Shoesmith, Bob Shoesmith, Colin Green, Joe Martin (coxswain), Doug White (second coxswain), H. 'Sassy' Benton,... - View image in PDF
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Winners of the Rnli's Public Relations Awards on the Central Jetty at the London Boat Show After Their Presentation By Libby Purves - Writer and Member of The
Winners of the RNLI's Public Relations Awards on the central jetty at the London Boat Show after their presentation by Libby Purves - writer and member of the Public Relations Committee. From left to right, front row, Julian Ware... - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
IN our Life-boat Saturday Fund article published in the February number last year, we ventured to prophesy that better results would be obtained by the Life- boat Saturday workers in 1901 than in the preceding year, and we are only too...
Category: Articles
Shortly After Their Arrival at the Festival Pier Prior to the Meetings the Four 1994 Bronze Medallists Greet Friends and Press.
Shortly after their arrival at the Festival Pier prior to the meetings the four 1994 Bronze Medallists greet friends and press. From left to right - William Clark (Lerwick), Richard Davies (Cromer), Barry Bennett (St Mary's) and Ian... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs