AUGUST 11TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 5.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in Pevensey Bay and asked that the life-boat crew should stand by. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
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Shortly after 9 in the morning the R.A.F. reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee l910- 1935 was launched at...
(left) A launch by horses at Brooke, Isle of Wight. Pulling lifeboats were stationed at Brook from I860 to 1937, when the station was closed.. - View image in PDF
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Below: (left) The boathouse provides plenty of room for all three of the station's lifeboats and (right) all the necessary launching equipment. - View image in PDF
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THE new life-boat station at the Lizard- Cadgwith was formally opened by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, who is himself a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, on the 7th July, 1961. His Royal Highness also named the new...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of...
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To improve communications for D class ILBs, Ron Caldicott (/.), electronics surveyor/ maintenance, and Pete Young, electronics surveyor, have produced a portable, waterproof and unsinkable version of the Pye Westminster VHP... - View image in PDF
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THE CREW Helmsman: Adrian 'AD'Trower (35, self-employed roofer, 8 years on crew) Crew Members: Duncan Stewart (41, caf£ manager in summer, groundworker and doorman in winter, 14 years on crew); Craig Akid (27, butcher, newly... - View image in PDF
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Life-boats have rescued 569 lives this year up to the end of November, The summer was the busiest the Service has ever had except in the year of the Battle of Britain, and September was the busiest September on record..
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