Palmer 'ands it over Easterners' dodgy geezer George Palmer (aka actor Paul Moriarty) presented a cheque to crew members of Brighton lifeboat in March. The presentation was held at the local pub, Spanish Lady, and was the result of a...
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DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Institution opened no fewer than 49 new stations and closed 11. These contrasting figures are evidence of the way in which the R.N.L.I. has been coping with the increasing demands...
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At 8.30 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, a message was received that a man had fallen from the pier and had sustained severe head injuries. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat Mabel Marian Thompson left her moorings at 9 o'clock and...
Amble, Northumberland - At 10.30 a.m. on ist December, 1966, two fishing cobles were reported overdue. Atn o'clock the Life-boat Millie Walton left her moorings. It was nearly low water. There was a rough sea and a southerly...
Plymouth, Devon - At 10.10 p.m. on ist April, 1967, a yacht was reported to be in difficulties inshore and dangerously close to rocks near the Royal Western yacht club. She appeared to be trying, without success, to pick up a mooring.The...
(above) Last December the 52ft Burnett Euphrosyne Kendal on temporary duty at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, rendezvoused in the Solent with Air Commodore Brian Macnamuru's yacht, Tamare, to pick up festive fare and deliver it to the Needles... - View image in PDF
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Left to right: Senator the Rt. Hon. Andrew Jameson (Chairman, City of Dublin Branch), Her Excellency Mrs. James McNeill, Major Arthur Whcwell (Chairman, Special Effort Committee), Mr. R. Noel Guinness (Honorary Secretary), Mr. B. J. Newcambe... - View image in PDF
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When the Mayor of Poole, Councillor J. M. Norman, performed the opening ceremony of the RNLI depot at Poole on May 27, the Institution was also entertaining visitors from La Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer. (I. to r.) John Atterton,... - View image in PDF
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Mr. R. C. Tremlett, a well-known bass fisherman in the Portsmouth area, has raised considerable sums of money for the Institution by giving talks, illus- trated by films and slides, on fishing and then making collections. Another film that...
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