The 900-ton coaster Woodlark aground on rocks at Morte Point, Woolacombe, Devon, on 13th December, 1967, and (below) the Appledore life-boat towing the vessel clear.. - View image in PDF
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37' Oakley lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane, back in Padstow after her service of December 7. (I.
to r.) Second Coxswain Trevor England, Dl (SW) Lt.-Cdr. R. S. Portclunouth, Coxswain Anthony Warnock and Honorary... - View image in PDF
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ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...
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Behind the life-boat is " Tail's Tower ". - View image in PDF
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South Western Division Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near...
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By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HOPE that no one who receives this issue of The Life-Boat will fail to read the story of Victor Rojas, well named " The Providence of the Shipwrecked,"...
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THE Institution now has two ghost cabinets, to show the changes in the equipment of the Life-boat Service.
They are on the principle of the old "Peppers Ghost," and are worked by a penny in the slot. In each...
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Wick's Tyne class lifeboat Norman Sali'esini launched at 0045 on 1 September to the casualty Fridor, a sailing yacht from Ohio, which was on passage from the Shetland Islands.. - View image in PDF
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Inset - one team puts the boat out for British beef in the Marlow raft rmce.. - View image in PDF
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