The new Whitehills Life- boat, which was on passage from the building yard at Cowes to her Station, with the Northern District Inspector of Life-boats aboard, left Aberdeen at 8 A.M. on the 14th August. At 10.30 A.M. a message was received...
COVER PICTURE Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II has recently taken up station at Plymouth. She a 44' Waveney class 'fast afloat' lifeboat built to a design introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964. Her twin General Motors... - View image in PDF
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YACHT TOWED IN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.6 p.m. on 2 ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares south of the life-boat house. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.20 in a south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide...
Mechanics down tools to pick winners Lifeboatmen attending a five-day mechanical and engineering course in Poole took time out of their busy schedule to draw the winning tickets for the Autumn lifeboat lottery in...
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• The quality of lifeboat station histories seems to improve steadily. A recent outstanding example is The Men of The Mumbles Head by Carl Smith (J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gower Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, £3.50).
Mr Smith,...
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Ships that pass . . . from an Atlantic 21, Ambrose Greenway took this picture of an experimental 19' Zodiac Mark V, crossing the larger ILITs wash. The Zodiac Mark V has a standing steering position, to give the helmsman better height of... - View image in PDF
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Three snatched to safety in atrocious weather conditions Coxswain Ron Cannon of Ramsgate lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for bravery, with Emergency Mechanic Timothy Hurst and Crew Member Lance Oram receiving Thanks on...
The following article by Alex Dickson appeared in the Scottish Daily Mail in December. It is reproduced here by courtesy of the Scottish Daily Mail.
Beside every life-boat there hangs an extra set of bright yellow oilskins....
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Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
Fairey Marine You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of seaworthiness. But if...
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