Last June the district engineer, district surveyor and the motor mechanic were in the boarding boat at New Brighton when she was hanging in the davits on the landing-stage. One of the davit-chains gave way, the stern dropped, and all three...
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electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.LI, and to att yachts of the successful British Admiral's Cup team. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is...
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Eastbourne's D class inflatable comes ashore after another service later in the year. On the night that Ian Stringer won his Silver Medal it was pitch black, there was a 6ft sea, the lifeboat's port sponson was holed and she was full... - View image in PDF
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At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...
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PORTHCAWL | 16 DECEMBER
A fisherman was knocked off his feet and dragged into the sea after a large wave swept over a breakwater. Within minutes the crew of Porthcawl’s inshore lifeboat were on their way, and found him drifting a...
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Appledore Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat breasts heavy surf in Bideford Bay. She was donated by RAF personnel and their families stationed at Wildenrath, Germany, who raised more than £5,000 for the RNLI in just one... - View image in PDF
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In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 182, 792, and 201, the. following launches on service were made during the months March to May, 19673 inclusive: Abersoch,...
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THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FLASHLIGHT OYNALITE FLASHES One of the world's most powerful flashlights, specially imported from the U.S.A. This six-cell flashlight is 80,000 candle power made of strong plastic, and unconditionally...
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ANYONE who has studied with care the transcript of evidence before the Sheriff's Court in Aberdeen, which investigated the causes of the capsize of the Fraserburgh life-boat last January, and the findings of the court itself, must be...
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It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: January Horace Eric Pengilly, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboat from 1967 to 1968 and then coxswain/mechanic until 1978. He had served as second coxswain from 1963 to 1967 and...
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