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A Boat and a Catamaran
Committee boat A RACE had been organised for dinghies at Blackpool Light Craft Club off Squires Gate on Saturday afternoon, June 13, 1981, but it was cancelled because of rising wind and sea. All the dinghies came ashore unaided but the...
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The Naming of Rnlb Ann Ritchie Oban
ON SATURDAY May 7 a damp, overcast morning overshadowed the preparations at Oban for the naming ceremony of the first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go on station. As the time of the ceremony drew nearer, however, the weather improved and a warm,...
Category: Inaugurations
Centenaries of Three Life-Boat Stations
THREE life-boat stations, those at Camp- beltown, Llandudno and Selsey, all celebrated this year the hundredth anni- versary of their foundation.
The Campbeltown station was founded in the first instance largely be- cause...
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Cover Picture
by Peter Orme A cheery wave from HRH The Duchess of Kent aboard the Mersey class lifeboat Marine Engineer after the naming ceremony in London's Docklands on 25 April 1991.. - View image in PDF
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Front Cover
Front Cover Dun Laoghaire's new Trent classAnna Livia drives through the windblown spray as she demolishes a wave at 25 knots. - View image in PDF
by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat The Joseph
At 9.30 A.M.
on the 19th April the Coxswain of the Life-boat Maria Stephenson observed a small line fishing-boat about six miles to the northward of Buckie, with a signal of distress flying. At the time a whole off-shore...