THE honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Bridlington has had the fol- lowing letter : The Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Briglinton.
" DEAR SIR, " We have been leaning about...
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THE Inaugural Ceremony, on 12th July, of the Plymouth Motor Life-boat, the third Life-boat to be built of the 60- feet Barnett Twin Screw type, was one of the most successful ever held. It took place in Plymouth's Civic Week, for which...
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Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the... - View image in PDF
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THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
MARCH 2 3 RD. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 3.45 P .M. information was received that an aeroplane had crashed, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 4.5 P.M. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea.
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-During the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to moderate sea. The Appledore motor...
Launching a life-boat is not always as easy as it looks. When the Flamborough life-boat was launched to help a boat on 6th January 1968, she ran into a rain gulley. Here the launchers are shown digging a trench to divert the water..
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IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
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Modern lifeboats carry their communications aerials as high as possible on the superstructure. In this photograph of the prototype Trent class there are two MF aerials at the side of the upper steering position - one connected to the... - View image in PDF
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