Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami was launched in a near gale on Sunday, August 22, to go to the help of American yacht Sonata, taking water four miles south of Cross Sand Lightvessel. Sonata got the leak... - View image in PDF
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A Yokel's Fair organised last July by customers of the Black Horse, Byworth, Petworth— licensee John Waldy—raised t450 for the RNLl. Held in the grounds of the inn and Roland Sailer's adjoining field, the programme included a... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Topsy Levan, honorary secretary of Kew branch, clad in oilskins and armed with a loudhailer, collects for the RNLI at the foot of Kew Pier, where countless holiday makers disembark after trips up the Thames. Last summer she raised more... - View image in PDF
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Sergeant F. C. Elverson, aged 69, a Chelsea Pensioner, pictured at the R.N.L.I. stand talking to Nicolette Milnes-Walker, first woman to sail the Atlantic alone and non-stop. Mr. Elverston is also a record maker (see below).. - View image in PDF
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The James and Catherine MacFarlane, a 36-foot Oakley reserve life-boat, was on display at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in July, 1966, while on its way to the Royal Show.. - View image in PDF
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Four of the programme sellers at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball held by the Central London Committee at the Dorchester Hotel last November: (I. to r.) Julia Kerr, Lula Wellard, Vanessa Bellamy and Jasmine Taylor. Such was the advertising... - View image in PDF
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Welcome to Blyth: RNLB Shoreline (r.) arrives in company with Blyth's previous lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) (c.) and the 52ft Harriett Princess Alexandra of Kent (I.) temporarily stationed at... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Catherine Patterson, vice-president of Anstruther ladies' guild, and Coxswain Peter Murray handover a cheque for £4,700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council. The money was raised at Anstruther's gala day when a... - View image in PDF
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. . . and talks with Mrs Winstone of Sheffield, donor of the lifeboat. With them (I.) is John Atterton, deputy director of the Institution. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Liverpool Daily Post'. - View image in PDF
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Michael Grant joined Selsey lifeboat crew in 1960 and was second coxswain from 1972 until 1978 when he was appointed coxswain; he was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1978 and the silver medal in 1979.. - View image in PDF
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