(Left) The medallists face the press cameras at St Katherine Dock the day before the meetings.. - View image in PDF
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Three souvenir sellers and two competitors (one fourlegged, the other two) pictured at Wootton Creek branch's gymkhana held at Guildford Farm, Havenstreet, Isle of Wight, last summer.
There was beautiful weather and... - View image in PDF
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Wicklow.—At 11.42 on the night of the 14th of March, 1955, the Com- missioners of Irish Lights rang up to ask if the life-boat would land a man from the Codling lightvessel, as his wife was dangerously ill at Skerries.
At...
Exmouth, Devon.—At 4.18 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was burning a white light about three miles south-east of Orcombe Point. At 4.39 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a...
Kilmore, Co. Wexford - At 12.30 a.m. on 4th February, 1967, a message was received that a man had fallen overboard from the Conningbeg lightvessel.
A further message advised that the man had been picked up and required a...
Steve Vince, the coxswain of Poole's Brede class lifeboat holds one of the winning tickets in the draw for the RNLI's 69th quarterly lottery.With him are members of the Poole crew and Anthony Oliver, the Institution's deputy head... - View image in PDF
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ON 3rd October, 1923, in a whole N.N.W. gale with a terrific sea, the trawlers of Brixham, were in danger in the harbour from a steamer, the Tuscarora, of Sunderland, which had come into collision with another steamer, the Torvald, of Sweden...
When Col. J. T. Benn, the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands, attended the annual meeting of the Caister-on-Sea branch in Norfolk, he presented a silver badge to Miss Alice Brown, a vice president of the Caister ladies'... - View image in PDF
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TOOK INJURED MAN OFF OIL RIG At 7.15 p.m. on 22nd November, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a man aboard the oil rig Endeavour needed medical attention for injuries. The life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane,...
The new Cromer life-boat, of the 46-ft. Watson cabin type, with steering amidships Built in 1945. - View image in PDF
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