The R.N.L.I. maintains a fleet of reserve life-boats, and last year boats built as far back as 1930, 1933, 1935 and 1939 were included. It is after a period in the reserve fleet that such life-boats are put up for private sale. The life-boat... - View image in PDF
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Launches 50 Lives rescued 116 OCTOBER 1ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At noon the Gorleston coastguard reported a drifter on Scroby Sands, flying a distress signal. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a swell. The...
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Cromer and Penlee.
THE new Cromer Motor Life-boat is the third of the Norfolk and Suffolk type to be constructed, the other two being the boats stationed at Walton-on-Naze and Lowestoft. The second of these two boats, the...
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At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 26th day of March, 1887, The Right Honourable Lord GEORGE HAMILTON, M.P., First Lord of the...
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For practical experience, a community service: Two apprentices of the Training Workshops at ICI Fibres, Pontypool, Phil Oakley (left) and Roy Robinson, undertook as their project the viring-up and commissioning of the electrical I... - View image in PDF
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One way of propelling the Atlantic 21 launching trolley: DODO a separate conventional four-wheel drive tractor encased in a watertight 'hull' of steel and armour plated glass. On the trolley itself, outboard, can be seen the cooling... - View image in PDF
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With Prince George is Commander Drury.. - View image in PDF
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Sailor Bob Faversham with companion Little Scilla. Photo Michael Pett. - View image in PDF
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