25 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1963 Issue.
Notes of the Quarter THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the development of life-boat design and in the...
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Leslie French, seen here (/.) with Mrs Charles Hunting Simpson, chairman of Fulmer and Iver branch, gave a presentation of excerpts from Shakespeare at Eton College on Sunday, January 18. £.400 was raised for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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The Joseph and Mary, 84 feet by &i feet, 10 oars.
THE port of Poole is situated on the N.E. shore of the picturesque bay of that name. When the tide is in, and the extensive mud flats covered, the scenery is striking...
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Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
MADRID, Jane 5.—At its annual general meeting the Spanish Life-boat Society was able this year to say that since its founda- tion in 1880 it had established 67 local branches, many of them self-supporting, 30 stations provided with...
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30th September.
A stearner reported ashore was found to be at a,nchor close inshore.—Re- wards, £12 13s.-.
ON the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, an eight-year-old boy, who was on an inflatable rubber lilo, was seen being carried down Wells channel on the Norfolk coast by wind and tide. The time then was 11.30, two hours after high water. The...
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IN former numbers of this Journal we have had occasion to point out that the use of the means at hand, in case of shipwreck, although of the rudest and simplest form, may by a little ingenuity and presence of mind, often prove of service in...
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Coxswain/Mechanic Maurice Hutchens was awarded the silver medal for the service to Tungufoss on September 19, 1981; he first joined Sennen Cove lifeboat crew in 1957, becoming assistant mechanic in 1959, second coxswain/ assistant mechanic... - View image in PDF
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Spear 9m Police Launch Waveney 134m Self-righting Lifeboat & craft for the total coastguard coocepl Tracker 19-6m Air-Sea Rescue Launch Manager Military Sales, Fairey Marine Group, Hamble, Southampton.
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