HRH The Duchess of Kent Meets Northern Irish Life-Boatmen. - View image in PDF
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WHEN the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, made a tour of Corn- wall in May, she visited the life-boat station at Penlee. She was received there by Mr. Barrie Bennetts, M.B.E., the honorary secretary, who holds the...
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Updating information on the stateboard. Movements of head office officials, divisional inspectors and other coast staff are kept readily available on pegboard (r.).. - View image in PDF
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Bembridge Coxswain, Peter Smith, Was Knocked Unconscious When He Was Thrown Against a Stanchion While the Life-Boat, Jesse Lumb Was Battling Against Heavy Seas on a Service Call to a Yacht in Distress. - View image in PDF
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the Duke of Kent with Mrs Esme Hugh-Jones, chairman of Cardiff ladies' guild, and Cdr Norman Lloyd-Edwards, chairman of Cardiff branch.. - View image in PDF
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Awards made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 160 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 6 Honorary Life Governorships,...
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High and dry Tobermory's Elizabeth Fairtie Ramsey launched three times between 620am and 5pm on 10 March 2006 to a 16m fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).
When the...
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From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation...
The RNLI started life in the City of London, then the financial centre of the world, and the...
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The Chairman of the Failsworth, Lancashire, Urban District Council, Mr. George Edge, has adopted the lifeboat service as his particular charity during his year of office and is trying to persuade a thousand organisations or individuals each...
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Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the relief 48ft 6in Solent...