AUGUST 19TH. - ALDEBURGH,. SUFFOLK.
During the evening a British pilot was seen to bale out from his aeroplane some three miles south of Orfordness. A N.W.breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The No. 2 motor life-boat...
The Boulmer life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle being waved away on 1st April, 1968, when she left her station for the last time.. - View image in PDF
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Oslo is an ideal setting for a gathering of life-boats. The city lies at the head of a long narrow fjord with moderately high land on either side. There is no slum area and the quays are only a few minutes walk from the centre of the town....
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THE advantages of the Motor Life-boat over the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat are obvious in speed, in range oi action, in power to travel in the face of a gale, and, above all, in manoeuvring power at the critical moments when the Life-boat...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 16th day of March, 1904, The Eight Hon. Lord BRASSEY, K.C.B., in the Chair, the following...
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• No one could be better fitted to write Mayday! Mayday!: A History of the Guernsey Lifeboat Station than Jurat Guy Blampied, QBE, who, an RNAS seaplane pilot himself in the first world war and an RAF officer in the second, has been an...
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OCTOBER 30TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. A Whitley bombing aeroplane had been reported down 40 miles S.W. of Bishop Rock, but the life-boat returned, after going over thirty miles, as it was learned that motor launches had searched the area...
A Service at Skegness.
SHORTLY before eleven on the morning of 19th August, 1935, the motor plea- sure cruiser, Elizabeth Allen, of Skegness, set out for a trip with over a hundred passengers on board. The weather was...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House on Thursday, the 23rd day of March, 1882, The Eight Hon. The LORD MAYOR of LONDON in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
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Capsize drill: in practice, the crew remain in the Atlantic as she is hauled over bycrane so that they will fall beneath the hull, where they would probably be should the boat be capsized at sea.
In an inverted state the... - View image in PDF
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