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The LifeboatSpring 1991 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 515 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
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Melfort
Ketch founders RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station at 0846 on Sunday May 17, 1981. that a yacht was aground at Derby Haven, east of Castletown; she was on the seaward side of the breakwater and...
No fear for the Reaper
Whitby’s Trent class lifeboat was launched on 20 July 2008 at 11.30pm to help the historic fishing vessel Reaper, which had suffered engine failure and was taking on water. In force 7 winds and a 4m swell, the volunteers transferred their...
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Life-Boats for Men-Of-War
IT has for a long period been the opinion of many naval officers, that every man-of war should be provided with an efficient life-boat; and we have from time to time advocated the same in this Journal. We are glad to know that there is now a...
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Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1954. 120 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched 48 times and rescued 71 lives.
ESCORT FOR FLAMBOROUGH BOAT Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in...
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Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a bather was being washed out to sea off Winthorpe Avenue, north of Skeg- ness pier. At five o'clock the life- boat The Cuttle...
"Launch!" An Appreciation of General Seely's Book
I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ROGERSTOWN, Co. DUBLIN.—In Feb- ruary 1873, a vessel was wrecked near this place, and the crew were nearly all day in the rigging before they could be rescued, there being no Life-boat at hand; the exposure resulted in the death of one of...
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Lifeboat Services
CREW TRAPPED AND INJURED BY PIER SUPPORT Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two...
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