DRIFTING CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 14th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the police had reported a cabin cruiser adrift in the river Humber, but...
The Sir William Hillary to which Mr Hills refers below was the RNLI'sfirst 'fast' lifeboat. Designed largely for rapid response in the event of an aircraft crash, she was 64ft long and powered by two 375hp petrol engines giving a... - View image in PDF
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• ev he first call came at 7.40am on Thursday 12 October. Following some of the heaviest rain ever seen in the South East. East Sussex Fire Brigade requested the RNLI's assistance with flood relief in Uckfield. This was the start of a...
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MORE THAN TWO TONS of mild steel are forged into the Rother's ballast keel.
Together with such heavy members as the twin diesel engines, set low in the hull, the purpose of the ballast keel is to lower the centre of...
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Aberdovey, Gwynedd December 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd December 10 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan February 24 Beaumaris, Gwynedd January 1 and 17 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland December 16 Blackpool, Lancashire February 26 and 28 Broughty...
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk July 19.
Amble, Northumberland July 21.
Angle, Dyfed June 13, July 11, 21, 31 and August 6.
Anstruther, Tayside August 2.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow July 15,...
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Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn, known to everyone as Maudie, comes from a seafaring family and has given so much help to the lifeboat service over many years that she has been made an honorary member of New Quay ladies' guild, Dyfed.... - View image in PDF
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Girvan: The 33ft Brede lifeboat Philip Vaux at her naming on June 25.. - View image in PDF
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A canoeist comes ashore at Dugort Pier after a rescue by the Achill lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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