IN another column we give an account of the very fine service rendered by the crew of the Matthew Simpson, the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat, in rescuing the whole of the crew, eleven in number, of the Swedish barque Jacob Baiters, of...
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Launch into south-westerly strong gale, force 9, Sunday March 22: Three progressive photographs of Eastbourne lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rather Duke of Kent, taken by 16-yearold Matthew Hancock as (left) she launched down her slipway into... - View image in PDF
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FROM FAIREY.. THREE KINDS OF LIFEBOATS FOR THREE KINDS OF CONDITIONS.
All built to the highest standards. Standards that have made Fairey justifiably famous as lifeboat builders.
All three have all weather...
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When HM The Queen, accompanied by Prince Edward, visited Orkney in August, coming ashore from the HMY Britannia at Scapa Pier, the crew of Stromnesx lifeboat were presented to her by Captain Magnus Work, DSC, honorary secretary of Kirkwall... - View image in PDF
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A GIFT of ten shillings has come from a working man at Southend-on-Sea in gratitude for the rescue of three men by the Southend motor life-boat Greater London. He had never seen the three men before, but had let them have his boat to go...
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CONDITIONS DETERIORATING At 8.50 a.m. on 22nd November, 1965, conditions on and near the harbour were rapidly deteriorating and two motor fishing vessels, still at sea, were due to return to harbour. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Blackpool beach gained a startling new attraction when the cargo ferry Riverdance developed a list and started to drift. All-weather lifeboats from Fleetwood and Lytham St Annes were launched on 31 January in force 10 winds, arriving on...
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WHAT ARE THE FORCES WHICH, WHEN HARNESSED, WILL MAKE A BOAT RIGHT HERSELF? by Stuart Welford, MiMechE MRINA Research and Development Officer, RNLITHE RNLI FLEET has included selfrighting lifeboats for well over one hundred years—since 1851...
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Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...