(Below) The 51ft Barnett (Stromness) lifeboat J.J.K.S.W. on service to Carmania II, ashore on Kirk Rocks in Hoy Sound.. - View image in PDF
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Jez Fanstone, Lymington lifeboatman, races around the world in September as helmsman/trimmer aboard Lawne Smith's yacht, Silk Cut.. - View image in PDF
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The schooner Albion, of Bcaumaris, while at anchor about a mile and a half from the Life-boat station, on the 12th February, during a strong S.S.W. wind, hoisted a signal of disti'ess. The Life-boat Eleanor proceeded to her, and, at the...
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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Fine weather cumulus forming over the cliffs and sea during the flight up to R.A.F. Chivenor on a hot July day and (right), H.Q. sign at 22 Squadron's site at R.A.F. St. Mawgan.. - View image in PDF
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Sergeant F. C. Elverson, aged 69, a Chelsea Pensioner, pictured at the R.N.L.I. stand talking to Nicolette Milnes-Walker, first woman to sail the Atlantic alone and non-stop. Mr. Elverston is also a record maker (see below).. - View image in PDF
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Welcome to Blyth: RNLB Shoreline (r.) arrives in company with Blyth's previous lifeboat, the 46ft 9in Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) (c.) and the 52ft Harriett Princess Alexandra of Kent (I.) temporarily stationed at... - View image in PDF
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IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
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On the 16th September, this Life-boat again proceeded in tow of the harbour steamer to the barque Amazon, of Gothen- burg, then a total wreck on the Goodwin Sands, and saved from her the master, his wife, and 11 men. There was at the time a...