The proprietor of Josephine's in St. Giles Street, Northampton, Mr. John Warren, who is a member of the Y.L. A., arranged a fashion parade in aid of the R.N.L.I. The fashion parade was held in the showrooms of Grose Ltd., car... - View image in PDF
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BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — On the 23rd September, at about 1 A.M., a southerly gale suddenly sprang up, increasing in violence until about 3 o'clock, when it became very severe. A large fleet of fishing-boats which had gone out during the...
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
Jewels for a lifeboat: A member of Phillips' staff models some of the 17 items of jewellery Mrs Esme Anderson generously gave to the RNLI for auction to pay for a new £390,000 Arun class lifeboat to be stationed at Newhaven and to... - View image in PDF
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Laurie Prynn, who had been a member of Salcombe lifeboat crew for some 16 years, regularly, from 1961 to 1978, gave about ten lectures a year to cadet members of the Island Cruising Club; in all he must have talked to some 7,000 youngsters...
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Thursday, 5th Jan., 1865. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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Director Brian Miles presents a plaque to Bnxham builders Lock and Williams in recognition of their help in restoring the Teignmouth lifeboat house. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Aith's 52ft Burnett lifeboat John and Frances Macfarlane has been on station since 1961. Between her donors, Mr and Mrs John Ewing Macfarlane, and the lifeboat people of Aith close bond of friendship was very soon forged.. - View image in PDF
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Pictured are station honorary secretary Frank Kilroy (right) accepting the 'bouncing lifeboat' from Mr Kemal Tayib, general manager of Holiday Club, Pontins, who represented all four sponsors.
Photo Evening... - View image in PDF
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Rupert, lifeboat collector par excellence: Captain and Mrs F. Wilson's African grey parrot does his trick of duty at their front gate. Being a talkative bird, he is very persuasive and in just three weeks last August, collected more than... - View image in PDF
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