On the 23rd February the Holy Island No. 1 Life-boat, the Grace Darling, assisted by a steam-tug, saved theFrench schooner Augustine Louise, \ which had grounded on the rocks near that place..
Lifeboat! by Edward Wake-Walker, Heather Deane and Georgette Purches, published by Ian Allen at £5.95 ISBN 0-7110-1835-9 As the authors of this volume are the RNLI's public relations officer, his deputy and a recently retired...
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THE life-boat service receives each year most valuable support from many sporting clubs. With costs increasing because of technical developments, it is timely to draw attention to the easy way in which clubs not yet helping the service can...
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The Southwold Motor Life-boat pulling out to the help of the Daman's, of Lowestoft (see opposite Dage).. - View image in PDF
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WATERLOGGED YACHT BEACHED ON MUD FLAT Selsey, Sussex. At 5.17 on the morning of the 9th July, 1962, a local fisherman, who was preparing to go to sea, saw red flares being fired from a ketchrigged boat about a mile north-east of the...
him and the crew and sending a donation to the station. He said, '/ have been sailing various boats at sea for 21 years and suppose that I have always had it at the back of my mind that the lifeboat service would come to my assistance in... - View image in PDF
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Rapid response MOTOR MECHANIC GRAHAM WALKER of Wells lifeboat station was on duty in the boathouse on the morning of Sunday June 29, 1986, when he noticed a man and young woman cut off by the flooding tide on Bob Halls...
Five young members of Lough Erne Yacht Club went the extra mile for the RNLI last year, when they held a mini triathlon to raise lifesaving funds. By paddling, cycling and running, they raised £310 for Enniskillen Lifeboat Station. Emma...
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WE record, with great regret, the death on 20th September, at the age of eighty-one, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., late chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Holmes was a Norfolk man, hailing from Morning- thorpe Manor House, Long...
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THESE remains but one type of Life-boat to which reference is necessary to com- plete the description of those boats which are propelled either by sail or oars. The Cromer type bears so strong a resemblance to the Liverpool Life- boats that...
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