Radar is being fitted to more and more R.N.L.I. boats and in the top picture Coxswain James Turpin, of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat Deneys Reitz, which was built in 1954, is shown operating the Decca 050 display.. - View image in PDF
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With John Atterton, acting director, looking on, Harry H. Corbel! hands Mrs Teresa Reiley of Urchfont, Wiltshire, the keys of the Saab 99 Combi Coupe car she won in the Southern District 1978 competition which raised £10,000 for... - View image in PDF
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Poole lifeboat, the 44' Waveney Augustine Courtauld, on Saturday, October 1, went to the help of a catamaran Sparkle, in difficulty with engine failure one mile east of Hengistbury Head. The wind was west north west, near gale force 7,... - View image in PDF
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Rve Harbour's lifeboat house sits atop a substantial base and piles extending deep imo the sedimentary mud on the west bank of the fiver Rother. The station operates an Atlantic 75. - View image in PDF
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THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...
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The Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache took out light fire-fighting gear when the oil tanker SHakund was beached on fire off Eastbourne in October, 1968.. - View image in PDF
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Vivien Nicholson ceremoniously knocks over the pile of pennies collected for the lifeboat service in 1977 at the Jolly Sailor Inn, Selby. The pennies added up to £.189, and it is the third year running that such a pile has been... - View image in PDF
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From a painting by Michael Turner which appeared with Paul Pickering's and Donald McLachlan's article 'For Those In Peril On the Sea' in Reader's Digest for February, 1972. The incident occurred in 1966 when the Holyhead... - View image in PDF
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A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message in a Bottle.
THREE more have to be added to the many and varied false alarms which have called out Life-boats.* On 25th August last, the Motor Life-boat at...
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Arun is a prototype 52-foot fully self-righting life-boat, built to satisfy the need for a faster design. The second prototype will have reduced free-board amidships.. - View image in PDF
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