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[Reliable oteable Logistical jnvaluable TALUS-MB-C and TALUS-MB-764 were designed and manufactured to meet the exacting requirements of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
They are built and specially treated to...
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Lady Friendship
Crew braves WWII defences to rescue grounded yacht
A Barque
A telephone message was received from Bacton reporting a barque -with signals of distress flying, on the 27th March. A whole gale was blowing from N.E. by E., the sea was very heavy and the •weather very cold, with squalls of hail. The crew...
(Below Left) Getting Down to Detail: Devon Scouts Who Visitedbideford Shipyard on March 6 Were Shown Over \Vaveney 44-018 By Roger Sullivan Rnli Overseer Steel This
(Below left) Getting down to detail: Devon Scouts who visitedBideford Shipyard on March 6 were shown over Vaveney 44-018 by Roger Sullivan, RNLI overseer steel. This lifeboat, to the funding of which Scouts have contributed more than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverte,—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. "Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
The S.S. Cape Clear
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.26 on the morning of the 7th of March, 1954, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Middle Shoebury Sands, but there were no distress signals. The weather deteriorated during the morn- ing, and at 10.12...
Foynes Island, 10 miles down the Shannon Estuary, has a fast running title with an average depth of 20 feet at most stages. by courtesy of (the Irish Tourist Board)
Foynes Island, 10 miles downthe Shannon Estuary, has a fast running title with an average ilepth of 20 feet at most stages. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of (lie Irish Tourist Board. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
THURSO, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Thurso in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a single-banked, selfrighting life-bqat, 30 feet long, and rowing six oars, has been placed there,...
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Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
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1826 Plan of Douglas Bay and Harbour Clearly Shows Hazardous Rocks Improvements to Harbour Works Running Out from Douglas Head and St.Mary's Rock Propose
1826 Plan of Douglas Bay and Harbour clearly shows hazardous rocks. Improvements to harbour works, running out from Douglas Head and St Mary's Rock, proposed by Sir William Hillary, are hatched.
by courtesy of the Manx...
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