Hands up: Keith Cook, an RNLI life governor, was at Aldeburgh lifeboat station last year when he came across this peculiar sight (left). Is it a particularly poignant appeal for funds or simply a case of all hands to the rescue?. - View image in PDF
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MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of similar design...
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CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U XI LI ARI ES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATI O N S This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat.
Many other winches...
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THE Institution has had made for it a new sound film which tells the story of the building of a motor life-boat. It starts on the other side of the world, with the hauling by elephants of teak logs in the Burmese forests, and the felling of...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Walter Jonas Oxley of Walton and Frinton, who has been coxswain since the beginning of 1947. Before that he served as bowman for nearly four years and as second coxswain for more than ten years. While...
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CLACTON.—On the morning of the 10th March news was received that a man had landed about two miles east of Clacton at eight o'clock in an open boat which was nearly full of water. He had been taken to a farmhouse by some labouring people,...
ON the morning of 27th July eight crab boats put out from Cromer, with a gale blowing. The sea was moderate, but heavy for small boats. It got heavier while the men were attending to the crab pots. The coastguard had them under observation,...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD DECEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.50 in the morning the coastguard reported to the motor-mechanic of the life-boat signals of distress from a vessel in the direction of Buchan Ness. The...
Weston-super-Mare: On Wednesday July 25, 1984, the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Weston Centenary, was on stand-by for the town's air day. She was waiting to carry out a helicopter lift demonstration when a crew... - View image in PDF
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