HRH The Duchess of Kent takes a trip round the harbour in the company of coxswain Robert Douglas. - View image in PDF
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The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.
COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...
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MONTHOSE.—A heavy storm was experienced on the llth March, the wind blowing a whole gale from the E.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, snow, and sleet. At 11.35 A.M., the No 1 Life-boat Augusta, was launched,"and was towed by the...
— On the 27th March, the schooner Selina, of Swansea, was totally wrecked on the Outer Stag Rocks, during a strong N.N.E. wind. The Anna Maria life-boat was quickly launched, but before she could reach the vessel, the master and a boy had...
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When 8-year-old Keegan Luraschi learned that RNLI lifeboat crew members are volunteers who count on public donations to save lives, he set his mind to doing all he...
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. . . (below) after her naming, at Newhaven on September 7, 1983, the new Arun lifeboat demonstrates her manoeuvrability. - View image in PDF
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THE Worthing station was closed in 1930 when a motor life-boat was sta- tioned at Shoreham Harbour. It had then been open seventy-eight years, and its boats had rescued fifty-eight lives. The boat-house, however, re- mained, and in it the...
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The naming ceremony of Ordnance Survey Bosun.
In attendance (from left to right), were: Jannette Petitjean, The Right Reverend John Perry, Mrs Wendy Fellingham, Mr Anthony Oliver (RNLI), Mr John Leonard, Mr Dick Perks... - View image in PDF
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Photographs by courtesy of Eastern Counties Newspapers.. - View image in PDF
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Before the University Boat Race took place on the Thames on 1st April, 1972, Commander P. Thornycroft, V.R.D., R.N.R., M.R.I.N.A., of T.T. Boat Designers Ltd, Bembridge, I.o.W., wrote: 'We have been asked by the B.B.C. if a boat can be...
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