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For Major Osman Gabriel (Right) of Hove Who Donated Her to the RNLI the Successful Selfrighting Trials Carried Out at Littlehampton on 8th September 1972 on The
For Major Osman Gabriel (right) of Hove, who donated her to the R.N.L.I., the successful selfrighting trials carried out at Littlehampton on 8th September, 1972, on the Pother class life-boat of that name which he witnessed must have been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Five Survivors of the Ramsgate Crew Which Went Out to the "Indian Chief" In January, 1881. From Left to Right, T. Friend (81 Years), T. W. Cooper (79 Years), H. Belsey (82 Years), C. Verrion (80 Years), D. Berry (81 Years)
The Five Survivors of the Ramsgate Crew Which Went Out To The " Indian Chief" In January 1881 From Left To Right T Friend (81 Years) T W Cooper (79 Years) H Belsey (82 Years) C Verrion (80 Years) D Be. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Best Efforts By F R Davies
HOW WOULD YOU react when confronted with three seven-year-old boys who had seen, say, a model you had built 15 years ago, and who wanted to build their own? Would you tell them that, because of inflation, it would cost three times as much...
Category: Articles
Visitor's guide
An invitation to me visit id discover the world of lifeboats..Few visitors to the seaside would think of a lifeboat station as a place to visit. But, as the operation and housing of a lifeboat is an essential seafront activity, many...
Category: Articles
Thanks to Culdrose
Plymouth lifeboatman, Fred Jackson, visited RNAS Culdrose in March to say thank you to the team who airlifted him to Derriford Hospital during a rescue last year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
March
MARCH Launches 36 Lives rescued 12
MARCH 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
The fishing fleet was out in bad weather, with strong squalls from the north, snow showers and a rough sea, and at 11.30 in the morning,...
Category: Services
Runer
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 12.36 a.m. on zoth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of many foreign trawlers which had been sheltering in Berwick bay during a gale had just fired red...
Tradesman and Masterman
Penlee, Cornwall.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of Novem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported an S.O.S. message from the tug Tradesman.
The tug Masterman, of Falmouth, at anchor in Mounts Bay with a crew...
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Exmouth, Devon; Fenit (Tralee Bay), Co. Kerry; Dungeness, Kent; Longhope, Orkneys.
THE Exmouth naming ceremony was held on 29th August in the presence of nearly 8,000 people. Among those taking part in the ceremony were...
Category: Inaugurations
Working Together: Helicopters and Lifeboats
AT THE TIME of the London Boat Show last January a discussion was held on the shared task of lifesaving at sea by lifeboats and rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters of the Royal Navy were represented by Lt-Cdr Adrian Thomas, Commanding...
Category: Articles