Below: As the result of a coast review Penlee crew members /pictured with their Arun class Mabel Mice) operate an Atlantic lifeboat in addition to all-weather boat. - View image in PDF
Picture Carl Wilson. - View image in PDF
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When a new carriage-launch lifeboat arrives at her station she is immediately re-launched and then recovered again as a final check on the carriage, tractor and lifeboat and to familiarise the shorehelpers with the new equipment. Recovery... - View image in PDF
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Hastings (right): Following her handing over and a service of dedication held on that blustery Sunday, June 5, Hastings' new D class inflatable lifeboat Cinque Ports I was launched for a demonstration run. The new lifeboat had been... - View image in PDF
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AT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, in Norfolk and Suffolk, and at Whitby, Yorkshire, the Motor Lifeboats took part in the Armistice Day ceremonies on November llth last, and at Heck- mondwike, Yorkshire, the twenty-five members of the Lifeboat...
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At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February the Coastguard re- j ported that the Girdler Light-vessel was firing distress signals, and shortly after- wards a message was received by wire- less telegraphy from a steamer stating that the Girdler...
JUNE 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the morning a small boat with five boys on board was seen two miles N.N.E. from the life-boat station. A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The boat was kept under observation and at 1...
On the 1st March the brigantine William, of Londonderry, was seen driving into Dun- drum Bay, during a strong S.S.E. wind.
She had her foremast carried away by the deck, and was waterlogged. The Life-boat Reigate was...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—The No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beawlerk was launched at 2.58 P.M. on the 21st August, as the coastguard had reported that a yacht about three-quarters of a mile S.E.
of Orford was signalling for help. A...
THE life-boat Christmas card and calendar, with a reproduction in colour of the service of the Ballycotton motor life-boat to the Daunt Rock lightship, of which particulars were given in the last issue of The Life-boat, can still be obtained...
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 15th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties about two miles off shore at Milford-on-Sea. There was a light...