150th Anniversary Reception given on March 4 in the State Apartments, Dublin Castle, Ireland, by the Minister of Transport and Power, Mr Peter Berry, TD: (left to right) Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, Mr and Mrs Peter Berry, Commander F. R.... - 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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(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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Watched by Commander E. F. Pritchard, Jack Sims and George Mobbs at Twickenham lifeboat ball, the chairman of the branch, Robert Tough, receives donation cheques from representatives of the Scout Association (Mr Stevens, £850), the... - View image in PDF
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Why she ? It seems just as a term of familiarity, affection and endearment, perhaps encouraged by the original frequency of obviously female figureheads on the ships of old.. - View image in PDF
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Boiled crabs (left), sold by four young helpers, Katie Douglas, Alasdair McDougle, Gary Hall and Anne Douglas, was just one attraction at Seahouses harbour fete last August Bank Holiday when £3,822 was raised for the RNLI. Mrs L. F. L.... - View image in PDF
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To improve communications for D class ILBs, Ron Caldicott (/.), electronics surveyor/ maintenance, and Pete Young, electronics surveyor, have produced a portable, waterproof and unsinkable version of the Pye Westminster VHP... - View image in PDF
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Guy and Clare Hunter, in gale force winds, standing by the acht Braemar before taking her in tow. May 22, 1967. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Bowman Richard Lethbridge. - View image in PDF
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Mo/lie Froom presents a centenary tapestry to Co.vswain Arthur Harman and Ken Broad, Clacton's honorary secretary; Jack t'room is on the left. In her tapestry, Mrs Froom embroidered the names of Clacton's lifeboats and coxswains... - View image in PDF
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Out from Gothenburg: (I to r) Huragan, Poland, Olav Wallenius, Sweden, Fritz Behrens, Federal Republic of Germany, and Merchant Navy, RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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