The Bridlington life-boat William Henry and Mary King, which is a 37-foot Oakley, being launched in a blizzard on 27th December, 1968, when she was called out to escort three fishing boats into harbour. She was built in 1964.. - View image in PDF
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The scene at Calshot Spit on 28th July, 1972, when the Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde was named by Lady Woods, wife of the former Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O. The life-boat, which has... - View image in PDF
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'Year of the Lifeboat' I pint Queens Ware mug by Wedgwood is illustrated (black on cream) with portrait of Sir William Hillary, founder of RNLI, and reproduction of painting of a lifeboat attending a wreck at the mouth of the Tyne,... - View image in PDF
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Birds Eye Foods Ltd • • 25 E. P. Barrus Ltd inside back cover Brooke Marine Ltd inside front cover Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd 9 Henry Browne & Son Ltd 27 Champion Sparking Plug Co Ltd .. .. .. .. .. .. 23 Coastal Radio Ltd 40 Cogswell...
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Early last year the Kidderminster ladies' life-boat guild gave each member 5s.
and told them to increase it. In September it was reported that over £80 had been raised in this way.
The Little Ship...
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Members of 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., at work on the track at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which leads to the life-boat station and (below) the finished track which took the squadron from 1st to 13th July, 1963, to... - View image in PDF
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The author, Richard Mann, in the museum at RNL1 HQ, West Quay Road. Poole. As the Institution's display manager it is part of his work to care for the Institution's museums and to support the volunteer curators who run... - View image in PDF
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IN 1957 three life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation.
These were the stations at Great Yarmouth & Gorleston, Caister and Wicklow.
Caister can claim, among other distinctions,...
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SEPT . 7TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after 10 P.M. information was received that an aircraft had dived into the sea three miles N.E. of the North Carr Light-vessel. The life-boat found nothing, spoke the light-vessel, and learned...
Marske Fisherman's Choir, founded simply to give pleasure to others, has made a second LP record in aid of the lifeboat service. The record, from the profits of which it is hoped to fund an inshore lifeboat, is available from A. M. Lloyd... - View image in PDF
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