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Solar panels on the roof of RNLI College in Poole, Dorset, are reducing our carbon footprint and saving money.
Within 3 weeks of installation, the panels had generated their first megawatt hour of power – worth £430....
Category: Articles
1975: Silver Medallists Coxswain Ben Tart of Dungeness (I) and Coxswain Albert Bird of Aberdeen Meet After Nearly 20 Years
. . . 7975: silver medallists Coxswain Ben Tart of Dungeness (I.) and Coxswain Albert Bird of Aberdeen meet after nearly 20 years . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mp Cuts the Ribbon
Pulling a fast one? There is no truth whatsoever in the rumour that the RNLI trials team are looking for an alternative means of lifeboat propulsion and asked the Director to acheive 25 knots under oar! Brian Miles, right, is actually... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Dorothy
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—Shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon of the 3rd of September, 1951, the sailing boat Dorothy was seen to cap- size one and a half miles off Cric- cieth. She belonged to the Morfa Bychan Public Schools Camp...
Margaret
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that the local motor fishing vessel Margaret had left the harbour at four o'clock to attend her lines and was...
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Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Royal Standard
During a thick fog, with a strong S.E. wind and choppy sea, on the 13th April, information reached the Coxswain of the Life-boat Matthew Middlewood that a steamer was signalling for assistance, apparently on the S. Smethic...
British Fisheries Report, 1851
THE Report of the Commissioners for British Fisheries for the year 1851, just printed, confirms the statement made in the April Number of this Journal as to the great value of these fisheries to the country, not only in a commercial point of...
Category: Articles
A Detail from a Poster Published After World War I Showing Lifeboat Services to Ships Mined Torpedoed Or Wrecked As a Result of the War
detail from a poster published after World War I showing lifeboat services to ships mined, torpedoed or wrecked as a result of the war.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Belgian Yacht Bassurelle
The Y-boat was in action again on 29 July when the Belgian yachtBassurelle was driven ashore south of Irvine Harbour and fired flares which were spotted by the coastguard.
The yacht was fairly close to the station, and in...