Dungeness: (right) The women launchers on the job, and (below) Mrs Joan Bates. (I.) and Mrs Doris Tart at the Royal Festival Hall after receiving gold badges awarded to them for their many years service as... - View image in PDF
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Again on the 27th October were the noble life-boat Bradford, and her consort, the steamer Aid, taken out on their mission of mercy. This time it was in response to signals of distress from the barque Emilie, of Swinemunde, which had drifted...
JULY 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a sailing yacht making heavy weather. Thirty-five minutes later they reported that she appeared to be showing a distress signal. A...
The Annual Meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund was held on the 7th of January, and was presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES of the House of Lords. The report, which was read by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN the Honorary Secretary,...
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(Below left) Getting down to detail: Devon Scouts who visitedBideford Shipyard on March 6 were shown over Vaveney 44-018 by Roger Sullivan, RNLI overseer steel. This lifeboat, to the funding of which Scouts have contributed more than... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Robert Cross of the Humber Silver and Bronze Medallist. - View image in PDF
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Derick Riley and His Model of the Howth Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboats of the World Gather at La Coruna. - View image in PDF
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT DONAGHADEE NOVEMBER 21ST. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 6.20 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the Donaghadee life-boat station that a steamer was ashore at Ballymacormick Point in Belfast Lough. A gale was...
Lee Johnson, the owner of a hairdressing salon in Lymington, raised £180 for the lifeboats with a raffle for a doll's house. He sold £90 worth of tickets himself and Lymington ladies' guild sold the rest.. - View image in PDF
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