New York Harbor Festival, July 5: the RNLI team of lifeboatmen from the north east, seen here with an Australian team after the first heat, went on to win the trophy. The course was over one mile in 28ft wooden pulling boats.. - View image in PDF
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The Inaugural Ceremony The Bishop of Iceland Reciting The Prayer of Dedication. - View image in PDF
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HRH The Duke of Kent addresses the gathering before presenting the awards. - View image in PDF
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Left to right: M. C. Walsh, Motor Mechanic T. Sliney, Second Coxswain J. L. Walsh, J. S Sliney, Coxswain Patrick Sliney, T D Walsh, W. Sliney.. - View image in PDF
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Above: Attaching the inflatable tubes to the Atlantic 21 hull. Surprisingly perhaps, the service life of tubes tends to be greater than that of the hull. Below: The Atlantic 21 in action - Southend-on-Sea's Percy Garon II. Photo A.... - View image in PDF
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IN the account of the wreck of the trawler Ben Doran and the courageous efforts made to rescue her crew, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, we quoted a passage from a letter, received from a resident in the Shet- lands, in...
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The ladies of Hoylake guild at a coffee morning which raised £430. It was held at The Hermitage, Caldv, the home of the guild's treasurer, Mrs B. M. Frazer. The enthusiasm of the helpers and the fine weather both persuaded guests to... - View image in PDF
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Help for Jolie Brise THE GAFF CUTTER Jolie Brine, on her way back from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, made to put in to Lowestoft for repairs after two days of gales during which, due to rigging failure, she...
LAST September five boys made a sand model on the Southwold beach of the Queen Elizabeth, collected seven shillings from those who stopped to look at it and gave them to the Southwold branch of the Institution..
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On the 4th August this Life-boat was again launched to the assistance of the brigs Macedonia, of Blyth, bound from Havana to Peterhead, and the Robert Stevenson, of Shields, from Archangel to London, which vessels, having been caught in a...