25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...
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Shortly after midnight on the 8-9th August, the Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that a fishing-boat was ashore on the rocks behind Keith Inch.
There was a heavy sea running with a strong N.W. breeze at the time, and...
A new experimental life-boat with a glass-reinforced plastic hull and deck— she is 40-foot long-was on 15th January, 1969, on view tothe press at Newhaven, Sussex. Here the boat, which has a maximum speed of 19 knots and cruising speed of 17... - View image in PDF
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
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Coxswain William Johnston, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 3rd February last, at the age of sixty-five.
He had retired only five months before on account of ill health. Appointed Coxswain in 1915, he...
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NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT MUSEUM On the quayside in the heart of the city's dockland is the largest display of Historic Lifeboats in Europe.
Come and see the Lizzie Porter from Holy Island, now fully restored, on the sole...
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by Portsmouth Publishing and Printing Calshot's Brede class lifeboat Foresters Future holds station alongside the yacht Software Mistress in the Solent while the lifeboat crew prepare to take off an injured crew member.
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MR. R. RENNISOX, the manager and guide of the old blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green, famous for runaway marriages, which is visited by thousands of people every year, very kindly offered, at the end of June, 1950, to have collecting...
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Lifeboat - in Danger's Hour by Patrick Howarth and published by Hamlyns was 'launched' at Eastbourne last April, when the author (r.} presented a copy to Coxwain/ Mechanic Ronald Wheeler. Chosen by the Booksellers Association as... - View image in PDF
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