The new inshore lifeboat IB 1 (below) will be a development of the existing D class but will use the latest advances in material and equipment technology.. - View image in PDF
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WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...
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(above and near right} The lifeboat manoeuvres alongside Supenramp as she pounds on the rocks in a Force 7. - View image in PDF
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IT IS THE GREAT AMBITION of F0rOya Bjargingarfelag, the Faroese Lifesaving Society, to develop a lifeboat service as an extension to the coast rescue equipment companies it has already established at various strategic points round this...
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Blue Peter I I I , the present 16' D class inshore lifeboat on summer exercise. - View image in PDF
Crew members are out on exercise every Sunday morning from the beginning of April until the end of October.. - View image in PDF
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION SPORTING APPEAL Distinctive trophies are available to sporting clubs wishing to raise funds for the Institution by organising competitions anywhere in Great Britain and Ireland.
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First lifeboat at Skegness, 30ft overall, was built by William Plenty. - View image in PDF
She is portrayed here going to the rescue of the brig Hermione in 1833, Coxswain Samuel Moody at her helm.. - View image in PDF
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Weymouth's 54ft Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell shows her paces in quieter conditions than those experienced in the services to the three yachts.
Derek Sergeant retired as Coxswain/ Mechanic during November... - View image in PDF
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Right - The ex-RNU lifeboat Ramsay Dyce.
ON 344, which served at Aberdeen, Lochinver and in Shetland, The vessel is maintained in the original colours of 1958 and, externally, is original. It is owned by Keith Oliver of... - View image in PDF
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Truculent, tactless, and causing mayhem. No, not the lifeboat crew but Martin Clunes starring as Doc Martin, a GP who arrives in the small, sleepy Cornish hamlet of Port Wenn (better known to locals as Port Isaac). The six-part series stars... - View image in PDF
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