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Mersey Class Number 12-002 Takes to the Water at Hastings on the Press Launch for the New Aluminium-Hulled Boat She Is to Be Stationed There After Operational Trials
Mersey class number 12-002 takes to the water at Hastings on the press launch for the new, aluminium-hulled boat. She is to be stationed there after operational trials. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (128)
AUGUST 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A British fighter aeroplane had been reported down in the sea to the E.N.E. of Gorleston, but the lifeboat was recalled when it was learned that the aeroplane had come down sixty miles...
Kingsabbey Ploughed Into Southend Pier
Lifeboathouse destroyed: a 645-tonnc coaster. Kingsabbey ploughed into Southend Pier on the evening of Monday June M . 1986. She came l« rest athwart the lifeboat slipway destroying piles supporting the front of the boalhouse. More... - View image in PDF
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‘MY YOUNGEST SON …DROWNED IN A RIP TIDE’
‘The Silent Epidemic’ in the latest issue of Lifeboat evokes powerful feelings. 10 years ago my youngest son who was participating in a turtle wildlife rescue programme in Costa Rica,...
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Wellgunde and a Tug
BALLTYWALTER, co. DOWN.—In thick weather, on the 17th February, while the ship Wellgunde, of Hamburg, a new ship of 1766 tons, was being towed from Greenock to Port Talbot, both tug and vessel grounded on the Butterfly rock, off Ballyferris...
Moored Together In Newlyn Harbour: the Two 52Ft Aruns
Moored together in Newlyn Harbour: the two 52ft Aruns given to the Institution by David Robinson—Mabel Alice, Penlee lifeboat, and Charles Brown, which recently went on station at Buckle. photograph by courtesy of John Corin. - View image in PDF
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A Rubber Dinghy
Penlee, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 10th of March, 1957, the St. Just coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy had been seen south-west of Penzer Point. The life- boat IF. and S. was launched thirty minutes later in...
New Year Honours
NEW YEAR HONOURS Knights Bachelor Captain David Stanley Tibbits, DSC RN (Retd.), Deputy Master, Trinity House. Sir David is an exofficio member of the RNLI Committee of Management.
QBE Rodney Murison Addison, Vice- Chairman...
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