Radar is being fitted to more and more R.N.L.I. boats and in the top picture Coxswain James Turpin, of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat Deneys Reitz, which was built in 1954, is shown operating the Decca 050 display.. - View image in PDF
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Torbay Motor Life-boat to be Named after Him.
AT their meeting on 17th September the Committee of Management resolved to " mark their high appreciation of Sir George Shee, as Secretary of the Institu- tion for...
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Since March 1942 the Austin Motor Company has given the Life-boat Service £1617. 6s. It gives one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it builds for ships' life-boats, and so far these engines have brought the...
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SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—During a strong gale of wind from the S.W., and a heavy sea, at 11.30 A.M. on the 24th October the brig August, of Griefswold, Prussia, signalled for assistance, having lost her masts and anchors. The Boys of England...
On the 9th November the French brig Jeune Colombe, bound from St. Malo to Preston, went ashore on the Horse Bank, during a N.W. gale with a heavy ground swell. The Lytham Life-boat promptly went to the assistance of the master and crew; but...
SCILLY.—During the night of the 27th October the wind blew a very heavy gale from the W.S.W., and early on the morning of the 28th signals of distress were observed from the direction of Trescoe.
Thp Henry Dundas Life-boat...
Twenty-one West Sussex businessmen took part in a sponsored cycle ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and back in October, in aid of the R.N.L.I. The only unusual thing was that all were on one cycle, said to be the largest in the world,... - View image in PDF
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RNLI lifeguards on Cornwall’s Fistral Beach finished the season with a brand new base.
Previously, the lifeguards on one of the UK’s busiest beaches were working from metal storage containers (above). Now, they have a...
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STRAPPED ALONGSIDE Hastings, Sussex. At 7.10 p.m. on i6th April, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed by the Hastings and St.
Leonards Angling Club that distress flares had been fired from the angling boat Lady Molly...