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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...
Category: Articles
A Double Baptism Aboard Appledore Lifeboat: on Sunday March 5 the Reverend Donald L Peyton Jones Vicar of Appledore and Priest-In-Charge of Lundy Island Ch
A double baptism aboard Appledore lifeboat: On Sunday March 5 The Reverend Donald L. Peyton Jones, Vicar of Appledore and Priest-in-charge of Lundy Island, christened Faye, daughter of Clifford and Angela Edwards, and Matthew Roy, son of Roy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stourbridge Branch Secretary Chris Fonteyn
Although not a knitter himself, Stourbridge branch secretary Chris Fonteyn does his best to give a helping hand during a three-hour sponsored knit-in, and has (I to r) Helen Bull, Jenny Turberfield and Meirwen Adams in stitches. Altogether... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (168)
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. Two airmen had baled out of a British Defiant trainer aeroplane when its engine failed, but nothing was found, and it was learnt that the pilot had come down on shore. Later the body of...
Nine People Rescued from Dutch Motor Vessel
A FINE service carried out in an easterly gale resulted in the rescue of all nine people on board a Dutch motor vessel. For this service Coxswain Walter Jonas Oxley, of Walton and Frinton, was awarded the bronze second service clasp for...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 30TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 7.43 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed approximately E.N.E. from Frinton battery, close inshore, and at 8.10 P.M. the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched. A high westerly...
An Aeroplane's Dinghy
JANUARY 9TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
At about 10 A.M. the Hooton R.A.F. aerodrome asked the coastguard to search the banks with their telescope for signs of a missing aeroplane, which had not returned the previous evening....
Grp Construction Has Been Used for All Recent Arun Class Lifeboats
GRP construction has been used for all recent Arun class lifeboats. The hulls are laid up inside a female mould (left) using polyester resin and glass fibres to produce a light, strong hull.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
1st January to 31st March.
Greater London.
BATTERSEA.—Concert by the Junior Imperial League, with address by Mr. Rham, Honorary Secretary of the Branch. Address to the Rotary Club by the District...
Category: Branches
An Aeroplane's Dinghy (1)
APRIL 20TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane towing a target had come down in the sea about two miles west of the harbour. Most of the regular life-boat crew were out...