On November 2 a delegation from the Spanish Red Cross of the Sea lifeboat society paid a goodwill visit to RNLI HQ and depot at Poole, going on the next day to visit Lymington and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat stations and the ILB depot... - View image in PDF
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Why she ? It seems just as a term of familiarity, affection and endearment, perhaps encouraged by the original frequency of obviously female figureheads on the ships of old.. - View image in PDF
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The Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache took out light fire-fighting gear when the oil tanker SHakund was beached on fire off Eastbourne in October, 1968.. - View image in PDF
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... and (left) after the Duchess had named Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II, she and the Duke are welcomed aboard by Coxswain John Dare and his crew.. - View image in PDF
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The Eastbourne lifeboat Duke at Kent beaches ready for recovery after her service to the blazing ammunition ship Breydon Merchant on 24 February. - View image in PDF
(Photo Paul Russell). - View image in PDF
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Fig 4: (below) Web frames, stringers, engine bearers and keelson are all now in place. The shape of the propeller tunnels, aft, is already emerging.. - View image in PDF
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Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat City of London tows the wreck of the 34ft yacht Robbery into Chichester Harbour after she had capsized and tost her keel. (Photograph Observer Series). - View image in PDF
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SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
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OCTOBER 11TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
During the morning, while several fishing boats were out, a strong wind sprang up, and by 12.30 in the afternoon it was blowing a gale from the north, with squalls, a rough sea, and...
Launches 33. Lives rescued 42.
MARCH 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after 5 p.m. the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Water Lily, which could be seen about three miles north of Margate pier, appeared to be in...
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