Joint rescue saves water-skiersOn Saturday, 8 September 2001, three lifeboats, two helicopters and two cliff rescue teams were called out to rescue three people from a speedboat that had capsized in a notoriously dangerous area. The wind was...
A prototype of a new life-boat on which the R.N.L.I, has been working for more than two years was shown to the press at Messrs. William Osborne's yard at Littlehampton on 19th April, 1971. The new boat (shown here) is a selfrighter,... - View image in PDF
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Sigurd Golje, one of Sweden's latest rescue cruisers, will be visiting Plymouth in July. In January she was breaking ice in the Bothnian Gulf.. - View image in PDF
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Dear Editor, I have been involved with or hanging around lifeboats since 1946 and have a fundraising silver badge.
The feature 'Lifeboating - an education' in the spring issue of the Lifeboat sparked off the...
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(Above) Standard 16' high-speed inshore lifeboat with inflated neoprene hull can work in shoal water and among rocks. Normal crew, two, but can carry up to ten people.. - View image in PDF
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THE following is the Coxswain's report of the important services rendered on the night of 3rd Dec. last, by the Ramsgate life-boat, to the passengers of the emigrant ship Fusilier, of London; and to the crew of the ship Denierara, of...
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• No one could be better fitted to write Mayday! Mayday!: A History of the Guernsey Lifeboat Station than Jurat Guy Blampied, QBE, who, an RNAS seaplane pilot himself in the first world war and an RAF officer in the second, has been an...
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