Six fishermen saved from stranded vessel in heavy seas The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to Coxswain Robert Duffy of Howth lifeboat following a service to a fishing boat in Force 7 winds and heavy seas. The deputy...
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Then: I lived in Hastings as a small girl in the 1950s, and remember the sound of the maroon followed by the footsteps of Coxswain...
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IT is again our painful duty to record the death of another old and tried friend, and Member of the Committee of Management, of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in the person of the late GEORGE...
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The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Dr David Steel visited Oban station last July, and went to sea in the Maclachlan ILB.. - View image in PDF
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Mr. Edward Heath on a visit to the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show in London in 1968. A letter in his capacity as Prime Minister is reproduced on the facing page. Last year he was elected Yachtsman of the Year by the Guild of... - View image in PDF
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The Queen Mother at the wheel of the Thurso life-boat, The Three Sisters, after the naming ceremony last year.
With her is Coxswain Gilbert Reid. The harbour scene shows the ceremony in progress and the 48-foot 6-inch... - View image in PDF
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Last year the Braunton and district branch of the R.N.L.I, in North Devon organised a number of efforts, the first being a raffle involving a model tug made by an Appledore man. It raised during the summer over £60. Picture shows Mr. A.... - View image in PDF
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When the Duke of Atholl, a deputy chairman of the Institution, visited Workington last year he met members of the crew and also officers and members of both Workington and Maryport ladies' guilds. He presented the silver badge to the... - View image in PDF
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(Right) White Rock Bowls Club raised £45 for Hastings lifeboat in a new annual pairs competition for the Walden and Weeks cups last autumn. The two cups were presented by Coxswain Joe Martin (centre) to Mr Compary (I.) and Mr Abbott... - View image in PDF
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Last spring it was announced that the Variety Club of Great Britain had agreed to meet the costs of the payments made by the RNLI to dependent children of lifeboatmen who had lost their lives on service or exercise, and also that the Club... - View image in PDF
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