Taking to the road: (Below, left) Dennis Oates, appeal secretary of East Ham branch, has painted a lifeboat scene on his Dodge van, which he uses for all branch functions. (Below, right) Jeffery Dyson, a signaller in Rhyl crew (r), with the... - View image in PDF
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Steven Findlay is pictured right with the tools of his trade, with which he collected £130-worth of bottles and coins!. - View image in PDF
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Stuart Popham has been appointed as the RNLI’s new Vice-Chair. ‘I’m honoured to be given such a fantastic opportunity – to be Vice-Chair for such an amazing charity and important lifesaving service,’ says Stuart, who has been on the RNLI...
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The 28ft yacht Josse is returned to safe harbour after her ordeal. Photo: Michael Pen. - View image in PDF
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Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...
The Yoko was formerly the New Brighton, Cheshire, reserve life-boat ON812 Edmund and Mary Robinson built in 1938. She was a 41-foot Watson and in those days cost the R.N.L.I. £6,000 to build.. - View image in PDF
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ANOTHER of those terrible visitations which have so frequently of late years befallen the fishing population on the east coast of Scotland, has again occurred, by which calamity no less than 44 men, mostly in the prime of life, have lost...
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The World Flounder Tramping Championship at Palnackie, Kirkcudbrightshire, made £549 for the RNLI and a lot of scrubbing necessary for competitors like Shaun and Terry Harper pictured here; there were 290 entries from all over the... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour, was leaking and in need of...