Falmouth (below): The warm, sunny July weather gave way to blustery winds and an overcast sky for the annual Falmouth lifeboat service at Custom House Quay on the evening of Sunday July 31.
Three hundred people gathered on... - View image in PDF
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The underwater shape of the Tyne class hull is well illustrated during a capsize trial. Note the soft, round bilges, deep, fine bow and the propellers recessed into shallow tunnels and protected by long skegs.. - View image in PDF
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A harbour fete at the little Northumbrian coastal village of Craster last July raised £.1,531 for the lifeboat service. It was opened with charm and wit by Joyce Grenfell who also sang snatches of her songs, everyone joining in... - View image in PDF
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Still doing good work in retirement: Dowager, ex RNLB Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, when acting as one of the escort boats for the 1977 Gravesend to Greenwich and back sponsored row, organised by Gravesend branch, towed in two boats with... - View image in PDF
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Portquin Bav, Cornwall, December 15, 1979: Padstow lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane stands by the Greek freighter Skopelos Sky in an onshore storm gusting to hurricane force. photograph by courtesy of John... - View image in PDF
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Four years ago two Buckie golf clubs, Buckpool and Strathlene, combined to run an annual open golf men's tournament in aid of the RNLI. It is held in alternate years at each club. In 1975 a tournament for ladies was started to be played...
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or THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
(IV fifura refer to the numbm of the Life-boati detailed on paget 616 627.) A Friend, per Pembroke Stevens, E«q., K.C , 26 i.
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THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 21st day of March, 1876. His Grace The DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, being unable to...
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SIK CHARLES W. MACARA, BART.
W. Haslam Mills. 6s.
This book is a record of a life of marvellous activity and manifold in- terests. Few men, even in that hive of commerce and industry the county of...
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