(left) The RNLI was 166 years old on March 24 and Storm Force member Peter Williams sent this special birthday greeting.. - View image in PDF
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When, in February, a coach bringing a visiting football team and supporters to Buckingham was swept downstream from a ford across the river, swollen by heavy rain, Peter Steers, landlord of the Woolpack, did some quick thinking. While... - View image in PDF
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Buster Merryfield, alias Uncle Albert from TV's Only Fools and Horses, drew the winning tickets in the RNLI's 48th lottery on 31 January 1990.
He is pictured with Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's head of fund raising,... - View image in PDF
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SWANSEA.—On the 8th January, at about 5.30 A.M. the Life-boat Wolverhampton saved the crew of 10 men from the barque Sarah Ann, of Sunderland, which had sunk in Swansea Bay during a gale from E.S.E. She was on a voyage from Swansea to Monte...
Testing out the MTV basic voice trainer: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, Motor Mechanic Alan Jones and Crew Member George Parsons from The Mumbles. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of South Wales Evening Post.. - View image in PDF
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LXV. MONTROSE No. 1.—The Mincing Lane, 33 feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LXVI. Ditto No. 2.—The Roman Governor of Caer Hun, 30 feet by 8 feet, 10 oa s. ' STANDING upon what may be termed a narrow sandy peninsula, is to be...
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THE following regulations are intended for guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the National Shipwreck Insti- tution, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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Mr. Michael Constable, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who is chief engineer of the m.v. Rangitoto, has turned his hobby of lapidary—collecting stones and pebbles—into profit for the R.N.L.I. During voyages he polishes stones and pebbles to... - View image in PDF
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(Left) The honorary secretary of the lifeboat station authorises the lifeboat to be launched and maintains operational control in conjunction with HM Coastguard. He is generally assisted in the administration of the station by a local... - View image in PDF
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Selsey, Sussex.—8th September. A child had drifted out to sea on a rubber air-float, but fishermen found the child's body and the float.—Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..