BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...
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(11)—Second coxswain Dennis Finch.
Became second coxswain when Frank Bloom took over as coxswain in 1964.
Worked as a boat builder at Halls Boat Yard, Walton, until recently. Now takes out fishing parties.... - View image in PDF
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Eastbourne: (top) All the world and his wife came to wish the new Rother lifeboat well, (above) The moment of naming, (left) Lisa Buckland presents a model of The Duke of Kent to His Royal Highness.
photographs by courtesy... - View image in PDF
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. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...
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(From The. Times, 18th October, 1889.) AMONG the many risks to which vessels navigating the sea channels near our coasts and the fairways leading to our ports are exposed, that of sunken or floating wrecks has of late years become very...
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The reserve life-boat, which was on temporary duty at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, broke from her moorings on 12th April, 1969, and was wrecked. The picture (left) shows her before she was taken in tow by the Barry lifeboat and (above) the... - View image in PDF
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Skegness, Lincolnshire. On 28th December, 1965, the life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem.
A full account of this service appears on page 63..
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 198 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 199 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 199 NORWEGIAN LIFE-BOAT ANNIVERSARY 2O2 GALWAY tIFE-BOAT MEETS ATLANTIC ROWERS 2O6 BROTHERS IN IRB SAVE THREE 208 LIGHTHOUSE MISSION 209 NEW WAYS OF RAISING MONEY 213...
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Launches 33 Lives rescued 136 MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life...
Category: Services
Charting progress I recently finished reading the Spring 1994 issue of THE LIFEBOAT and am, as always, utterly amazed at the achievements of the Institution over the years.
The accounts of the lifeboat services in...
Category: Correspondence