SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
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It is not often that one sees the director of the RNLI wearing a hard-hat, laying concrete, sporting a sprig of yew tree and then supping a glass of ale - especially when perched on the top of a...
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Hawker Siddeley Nimrod—the world's first pure jet maritime reconnaissance aircraft—of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Morayshire (left), the well-tried Avro Shackleton used for search and rescue (right), R.A.F. rescue/target towing... - View image in PDF
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(Left) Port bow view of 30' self-righting pulling lifeboat built by T. and IV. Forrestt and Son for the US Life Saving Service and now in The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, USA.
photograph by courtesy of The... - View image in PDF
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ON the afternoon of the 30th of May, ths life-boat at Cullercoats ran an engine trial. As she was being re- placed on her carriage she slipped and fell on one of the launchers, a man of sixty-seven. One of his legs was so severely injured...
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Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.55 P.M. on the 25th February the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that a vessel two miles S.S.W. of Lulworth look-out was burning red flares. She was the motor vessel Gertruda, of London, and her engine had broken down....
Aberdeen's Arun class BP Forties escorts the fishing vessel Ceol-na-Mara into Aberdeen harbour after nearly seven hours at sea in gale force winds. - View image in PDF
photo - Jim Ferguson, Aberdeen RNLI. - View image in PDF
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A LONG SEARCH At 1.42 p.m. on sist October, 1965, the fishing vessel Fair Adventure was reported by the coastguard to have requested an escort as all her navigational aids had ceased to function eight miles east of the Sea Gem oil rig. The...
Sir William Priestley at the helm. On his left, Mrs. Moss Howson ; on his* right, the Lord Mayor of Bradford and the Lady Mayoress ; behind him, Mr. G. G. Stephenson. Lord Deramore is on the left of the picture, and Coxswain Cross on the... - View image in PDF
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