Hoots man: The crew of Kirkcudbright lifeboat Mary Pullman, on exercise with a helicopter from a nearby RAF Rescue Squadron, got the surprise of their lives when, after the usual drills, the winch came down once more, bearing a piper in full... - View image in PDF
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Dover's Severn class lifeboat City of London II. - View image in PDF
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February 1997 Yves Herve, ex-coxswain of Criccieth lifeboat from 1964 to 1968. Yves joined the station in 1953, becoming head launcher in 1957 and acting coxswain in 1963..
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N EWS P O I N T There coutd only be one topic for Newspoint in this issue - the remarkable service by the Lerwick lifeboat to Green Lily, which led to the award of the first Gold Medal for 16 years to her coxswain and a further five Bronze...
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The crew of Skegness lifeboat station host the presentation of a Ford Ka to Mr and Mrs Henshaw, winners of the autumn 2004 Lifeboat Lottery.. - View image in PDF
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Sir William's name lives on in the shape of the latest Douglas lifeboat, the 1988-built Tyne class Sir William Hillary. - View image in PDF
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A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...
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(Right) Fifty minutes of sponsored silence for the five to eleven-year-olds at Grendon Road Junior School, Birmingham, raised £252.08 for the lifeboat service.. - View image in PDF
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The Annual Meetings The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards for 1997 will again take place in the Barbican Hall, London.
The meetings will be held on Thursday 15 May, the AGM at 1130 and the...
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PROPELLER FOULED BY NETS Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 7 o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1947, flares were seen in South Bay, and the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 7.20. A strong southerly...