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had become disabled when her propeller had fallen off. She had been blown close to some rocks and the lifeboat towed her clear. The two men were then taken aboard the lifeboat and the power boat towed to Girvan. Harbour was reached at 2245...
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Lifeboat Services (from page 137)
north easterly course, was making no headway and drifting towards the rocks, but the three men on board refused help, saying that they were on their way to Ireland.
It was at this point that the Coastguard received...
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Page 21: Coxswain Donald Macleod
Page 21: Coxswain Donald Macleod. - View image in PDF
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Long search rewarded FOLLOWING A REPORT that some people had been cut off by the tide in the Beacon Cove area, Newquay's 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat had launched on the afternoon of Sunday August 3, 1986. It was a fine day with...
British Oak and Don Pat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.34 P.M.
on the 20th March, 1939, the R.N.
Shore Signal Station reported that rockets had been seen at Warden Point, coming from the Nore and Mouse...
The kindness of strangers
Kevin Payne dreamed of starting a new life by the Mediterranean. On 2 July 2007, he left Southampton in his 25m converted trawler Abundance, with friend George, Daisy the dog, Fluffy the cat, and everything he owned onboard. Mairéad...
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The Most Dangerous Part of a Boat...... is the skipper
Statistics show that more than half the RNLI's lifeboat launches are to pleasure craft. The situation is one which the pleasure boating fraternity is aware of, and which the sport's national body is making every effort to remedy.<...
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Books
• AH At Sea, a catch of true and tall stories trawled by writer and broadcaster Libby Purves, has been published by Fontana to mark the 160th anniversary of the RNLI, a milestone reached on March 4 this year. Here can be found all the...
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A Replica of Greathead's 'Original' Lifeboat Made of Flowers Was Used By Lowestoft Ladies' Guild at the Rnli Anniversary Ball and Church Service In March
A replica of Greathead's 'Original' lifeboat made of flowers was used by Lowestoft ladies' guild at the RNLI anniversary ball and Church service in March. The guild raises over £3,000 annually for branch... - View image in PDF
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Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part 1
KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...
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