Long service Early last year members of Bognor Rotary Club presented an inscribed chair for Selsey lifeboat station's crew room. It was in memory of the late Mr R. D. Bray, a Rotarian who had been associated with Bognor Regis RNLI branch...
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For years, students and teachers at Atlantic College have volunteered for a lifeboat crew ready to launch off the south Wales coast. But now the College has a new lifesaving focus. While the lifeboat station has now closed, students have...
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Watford branch has raised more than £10,000 since it was re-formed in 1980. During its 1982 lifeboat week £2,091.23 was raised and hard at work, with the support of Council/or Ted Amy, are (I to r) Chris Rawling, Vic Curdwell,... - View image in PDF
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Mrs L Wheatley, Southampton guild flag week organiser and souvenir secretary from 1981 until her death. Mrs Wheatley joined the guild in 1977 and was vice chairman from 1981 to 1988. She received the silver badge in 1989..
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Regular visitors to Lyrne Regis will no doubt recognise this smiling face! 'The Axminster music man' Norman Welsh plays his accordion along Lyme's promenade in all weathers during flag week, collecting money for charities as he... - View image in PDF
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In the five years since war was declared on 3rd. September, 1939, our lifeboats have put out to the help of ships and aeroplanes 3,385 times and have rescued 5,777 lives. That is an average of 22 lives every week. It is more lives rescued in...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 2.52 on the afternoon of the 1st of Septem- ber, 1957, the coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized south of the pier head. The life-boat Edian Court- auld put out at 3.5 in a slight...
THE new life-boat being built for Aith, Shetland Islands, will be exhibited at the International Boat Show, sponsored by the Daily Express, at Earls Court in London, from the 4th to the 14th of January, 1961. Space to exhibit this boat has...
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IN THE EARLY HOURS of November 30, 1973, the motor vessel Burtonia sank off the east coast of England with the loss of four lives. Three men were picked up by another motor vessel and one by Aldeburgh lifeboat. The Aldeburgh and Lowestoft...
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Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 3.35 p.m. on 23rd March, 1969, it was learnt that a boy was stranded on a rock off shore at Broadsea, Fraserburgh.
The life-boat Duchess of Kent was launched at 3.40. It was high water. The...