Congregation gathered round model of lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse after the service of thanksgiving at Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth. Photograph by courtesy of 'Western Morning News'. - View image in PDF
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Moving model of a French lifeboat station made by Alain and Philippe Nacass. The plastic lifeboat on the slipway is a British 37' Oakley.. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 14TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 5.30 A.M. news was received from the observer post and the coastguard that a British bomber had come down in the sea between Hythe and Dymchurch. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a...
CRASHED AEROPLANE Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of September, 1947, the Swanage coast- guard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Bournemouth, and the motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright...
Les Dennis draws the winning tickets under the watchful eye of the deputy head of fundraising and marketing Anthony Oliver.. - View image in PDF
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One way of propelling the Atlantic 21 launching trolley: DODO a separate conventional four-wheel drive tractor encased in a watertight 'hull' of steel and armour plated glass. On the trolley itself, outboard, can be seen the cooling... - View image in PDF
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Squadron-leader John Weaver, Officer Commanding, No. 22 Squadron, photographed at the controls of a Westland Whirlwind Mk. 10 helicopter during the flight between R.A.F. St. Mawgan and R.A.F. - View image in PDF
Chivenor.. - View image in PDF
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In October, 1968, the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., and Deputy Chairman, Cmdr. F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., inspected the life-boat at Aberdeen in the course of a tour of Scottish life-boat... - View image in PDF
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SIR. - Since it would appear that no record has been made of the Institu- tion's earliest effort at mechanization, I am most interested in preparing a paper covering the inception of the steam life-boat; its design; building and method...
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A 20 mile sponsored walk in aid of the R.N.L.I. set many feet walking from Bognor Regis to Selsey. On the left Mr F. W. Shearing, chairman of Bognor Regis Urban Council, is shown with some of the walkers before they started their... - View image in PDF
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