A sales caravan sited on Poole Quay during the summer has not only provided a test-bed for new souvenir lines, such as T-shirts and anorak badges, but it is also a popular information bureau for lifeboat affairs and local... - View image in PDF
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Keith Downey, nephew of one of the victims of the Rye pulling and sailing lifeboat Mary Stanford disaster in 1928, is here shown demonstrating the use of Professor Pask's aid to resuscitation in the Rye Harbour ILB.. - View image in PDF
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Number: A tug and a Grimsby fishing vessel were in collision near Bull Light on the morning of April 1.
Being informed that there were people in the sea, Number lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson City of Bradford III,... - View image in PDF
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Scarborough lifeboat, the 37' Oakley J. G. Graves of Sheffield, launched at 1945 on September 21, 1976, with a pump and three firemen on board, to help trawler Anmara (with crew of three) under tow of trawler Carolanne and in danger of... - View image in PDF
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Port St Mary: Mrs A. A.
Ritchie names The Gough Ritchie. With her (front row, I. to r.) Major - General Ralph Farrant, Chairman, RNLI, The Bishop of Sodor and Man, Bryan Doughty, chairman, Port St Mary branch, and John... - View image in PDF
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(7. to r.) Crew Member John Curry, Crew Member Robert Lydiate and Helmsman Ronald 'Taffy' Jones who, on March 6, manning West Kirby D class inflatable lifeboat, rescued two men from a capsized canoe.
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Lunhods I wedged firmly into the rocks south of Kirkabister Light at the entrance to Bressay Sound. It was dark and blowing Force 10 when Soldian went to her rescue. - View image in PDF
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Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
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THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
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WE have much pleasure in extracting from the French Life-boat Journal the following interesting account of services performed by the life-boats of the " Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages," during the first quarter of the...
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