The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
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COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A.. retired from the post of Secretary of the Institution on the 30th of June, 1960, after twenty- nine years in the Institution's service.
He came to the Institution...
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At 10.30 A.M. on the 6th August, whilst the fishing fleet were returning from sea, in a strong northerly wind and rough sea, serious congestion took place in the harbour channel, and it was feared that serious damage might be caused to life...
THE Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain W. H. Jones, of New Brighton; second-service clasps to the bronze medals they already hold to Second Coxswain J. Nicholson and Motor Mechanic W. Garbutt; its bronze medal to Second...
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ON 18th and 19th June the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in the Isle of Wight held an "All-Island Life-boat Fete" in the Nelson Hall at East Cowes.
The Hon. Mabel Gough-Calthorpe, the Hon. Secretary of the Guild, was...
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FOR years past the Montrose life-boat crews, by their readiness at all times to proceed to sea to the rescue of the wrecked, and the success which has at all times attended their labours, have earned for Montrose the reputation of being, so...
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BAD WEATHER CLIFF RESCUE WHEN, on 8th February, 1972, Mr J. J. Adams, honorary secretary, Hastings, Sussex, was told by the police at about 2.15 p.m. that a man had fallen over the cliff to the east of the harbour at a point known as...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1955 ... - 79,131 Notes of the Quarter EXCEPTIONAL weather conditions...
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IT is FITTING that an article on the lifeboats of the world should begin by acknowledging the fact that Great Britain was the cradle of the lifeboat and that from the early efforts of the 'National Institution for the Preservation of...
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Poole Headquarters and Depot Thursday July 19 Friday July 20 Saturday July 21 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm FOR ITS 160th anniversary year, the RNLFs head office and depot will once again be open to the public and there will be an...
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