THE following summary of eight months' work by a new honorary secretary, Miss G. Coventry, of Milford- on-Sea, Hampshire, deserves to be put on record.
A year ago Miss Coventry bought an old life-boat (the Mevagissey,...
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Hearing, on Sunday, July 25, that MFV Mary Sue of Dublin, with five people on board, had engine failure one mile south of Puffin Island and needed help, Valentia's 52' Barnett lifeboat, Rowland Watts, slipped her moorings at 1820 and... - View image in PDF
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Scotland South Division Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2,...
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DURING March, 1948, life-boats went out on service 30 times and rescued 10 lives.
AGROUND IN FOG Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a...
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In our last number, under the head of " Signals of Distress," we inserted a new scheme of day and night signals for pilot- age and distress, proposed by the Board of Trade. We now give a copy of those signals as contained in a...
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FOUR medals for gallantry were awarded by the Institution in 1946, two silver and two bronze. The silver medals were won by Coxswain John Murt, of Padstow, and Robert Harland, a member of the Whitby crew, and the bronze medals by Coxswain...
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Notes of the Quarter 74 Lifeboat Services 77 Volume XUX *M~11TviVipi* 4RO Naming Ceremonies and Dedications 83 Working Together: helicopters and lifeboats 89 Chairman: Lifeboat People 94 THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: Used...
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Fig. 4: John Chadwick, RNLI district surveyor of lifeboats, south west, checks with plumb line the distance of centre of air bag end from centreline of cabin top.
The bag, like hovercraft skirts, is made of two layers of... - View image in PDF
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The Two Belgian Motor Life-Boats Built From The Plans of the Watson Cabin Type. - View image in PDF
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