Coxswain Albert Bird (r.), Aberdeen, entertains Skipper John Thomas, former assistant mechanic at Dungeness and the man who saved his life when Dungeness lifeboat rescued six men from Teeswood in the great Channel gale of 1956; a service for... - View image in PDF
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In competitions with lifeboat themes for children organised by London Co-op, winner of the painting section for children under 11 was Gerald F/ynn, and for the essay section for children aged 11-16 Carolyn Williams. Mrs E. A. Mewis, Director... - View image in PDF
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(Above) 44' Waveney class lifeboat, introduced from US Coast Guard in 1964, is first of the RNLI's 'fast afloat' lifeboats. Exceptionally manoeuvrable, her twin General Motors Detroit marine diesel engines give a top speed of... - View image in PDF
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IN THE FIRST PART of this article, published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, we recalled the righting after capsize on service of four of the Institution's lifeboats and looked at the designer's work which had made possible the...
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Two intrepid travellers, John Ford and Melvyn Webster, made a 1,000 mile dash last October from St Helier, Jersey, to Aith, Shetland, and raised £2,250 for the RNLI.
First they flew from St Helier to Southampton, this... - View image in PDF
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Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again... - View image in PDF
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Tramore ILB was twice thrown clear by large breaking seas before the boy stranded on a rocky islet in Ronan's Bay could be reached. Helmsman Frank Partridge and crew members Mr David Kenneally and Mr Sean Walsh have all received the... - View image in PDF
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December 28, 1973: engineer from the hull trawler * *~ Lord Nelson, with badly fractured leg, being taken abroad Calouste Gulbenkian, on relief duty at Bridlington. It was the second service for the lifeboat and her crew in an | hour and a... - View image in PDF
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Lymington: Wing Cdr Alan Roxburgh (r.), station honorary secretary, and Herbert Rand (I.), branch vice-chairman, with Clare Francis who opened the station's new ILB boathouse on June 2, unveiling a plaque commemorating a gift from Saab... - View image in PDF
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Jan. 3.—Voted II. !0s. to 3 men of Lerwick, N.B., who rescued 3 persons from the smack Teazer, of Sandsair, Shetland, which had been caught by a squall, and had sunk off Bressay, Shetland, on the 31st October.
Also 41. to...
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