The three medal winners (left to right) Coxswain George Jappy of Buckie, Banffshire (bronze medal), Coxswain Derek Scott of The Mumbles, Glamorganshire (bronze medal) and Coxswain John King of Bridlington, Yorkshire (bronze medal)..
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(right) David Jones, divisional organiser (north west) introduced members of Fleetwood and Thornton Cleveleys ladies' guilds to the Duke of Kent, who also met the crew and their wives and branch officials. - View image in PDF
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Martin and Nigel Lutt raised £.33 for the Leighton branch with their own exhibition of model aircraft and soldiers. photograph by courtesy of the 'Beds, and Bucks. Observer'. - View image in PDF
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A splendid bonfire, representing the Houses of Parliament, was built by the crew of the Calshot lifeboat for their annual bonfire and firework party which this year raised £1,700.. - View image in PDF
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Winchman Ernie Bennett activates the winch which, with a V-shaped bridle of special flexible wire, hauls the lifeboat clear of the water.. - View image in PDF
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(Above) Margate's new 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. - View image in PDF
38) on the day of her naming.. - View image in PDF
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In Portsmouth dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the second Oakley 48-foot 6-inch lifeboat was capsized twice for the benefit of the Press and a large unofficial gathering of naval and civilian dockyard personnel. Here she is shown righting and... - View image in PDF
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Tow the goat ashore! Tiffany, Timothy, Chocolate Drop, Snuffles and Gem were five goats who had got quite used to their lonely existence on the isle of Inchkeith in the Forth estuary.
When the Allandale Animal Sanctuary...
On the morning of the 16th March a four-masted schooner, the Reform, of Stavanger, bound from Bankok for Greenock with teak wood, was sighted off Burr Point flying signals denoting that she was sinking. The crew of the Lifeboat were summoned...
Almost twenty years of Arun development. The prototype Arun (1971) shows the high freeboard and original wheelhouse. - View image in PDF
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