Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, president of the R.N.L.I., presenting Ian Gillies, a 12 year old boy from Gourock, with an inscribed wrist watch for an act of exceptional gallantry- The occasion of the presentation was the annual meeting... - View image in PDF
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Conlticl! Dave Richardson (left) radio ham and crew member of Clecthorpes inshore lifeboat, makes contact with Tel-Aviv, a contact that's worth £20 from one sponsor alone, during a 24-hour sponsored amateur radio event held at... - View image in PDF
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The first of the three Barnett- Stromness model lifeboats to be 'commissioned', seen as though launching down a slipway with its proud 'coxswain', just three days short of his eighth birthday. He has called the model Falmouth... - View image in PDF
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Yachts and pleasure boats represent almost 60% of lifeboat launches, so these were the first target for the RNLI's Sea Safety initiative. Even the most well-found vessel can find herself in trouble, but the aim of the initiative is to... - View image in PDF
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MARCH 21ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 4.15 in the afternoon a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard at Penzance, that a vessel and possibly two, nine miles west of The Lizard, needed help. There was a light...
HAD BROKEN DOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.27 p.m. on 5th May, 1964, the Kildonan coastguard told the life-boat coxswain of a Lamlash police report that a small boat was in difficulties 200 yards north of Holy Isle buoy. The life-boat Glencoe,...
The Duke of Kent has accepted the Institution's invitation to become its next President. This was announced formally at the annual general meeting of the Governors of the Institution on 25th March (see page 618). The Duke of Kent thus... - View image in PDF
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1953, the United States steamer Haiti Victory collided with the British Railways passenger steamer Duke of York two miles east-south-east of the Galloper lightvessel. The...
Five intrepid members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club, (7 to r) Paul Ward, Mike Boyce, Ian Burgess, Steve Towill and Colin Ward, ready to set out from their base camp at the Lansdowne public house, Dawlish. These men crawled— literally... - View image in PDF
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Practising beaching, to land well clear of possible breaking waves or heavy surf: as the helmsman brings the Atlantic 21 lifeboat in at speed the two crew members prepare to tilt up the outboard engines clear of the ground.. - View image in PDF
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