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The Tractor
The tractor, now uncoupled, reverses to pull the boat off her carriage with the launching falls.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winchman Ernie Bennett Activates the Winch Which With a V-Shaped Bridle of Special Flexible Wire Hauls the Lifeboat Clear of the Water
Winchman Ernie Bennett activates the winch which, with a V-shaped bridle of special flexible wire, hauls the lifeboat clear of the water.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Westward Ho!
Our summer break at Littlehampton was a little longer than anticipated perhaps due to a reluctance to depart before there was some progress to report on the new boathouse project. It is now some two years since discussions started on the...
Category: Articles
Ben Tart of Dungeness
Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.
Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...
Category: Obituaries
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN LEWIS BENJAMIN HARRISON has been coxswain of Cromer No. 2 lifeboat since ist October, 1953. He joined the crew of No. 2 life-boat in 1931, and served as second coxswain of No. i life-boat for six years, from 1947 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Schooner Sif
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—2nd Julv, 1939. The Danish schooner Sif, of Marstal, appeared to be in difficulties, but she was only waiting for a pilot.— Rewards, £5 15s. Qd..
Duchess, a Schooner, Julia, Cornucopia, et al
At 12.30 A.M. on the 7th November the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Aid, proceeded to the Kentish Knock Sand, the master of a fishingsmack having reported that there was a vessel ashore there. The wind was blowing moderately...
Chay Blyth Signed Copies of the Lifeboat Souvenir Programme While Visiting the Exhibition
Chay Blyth signed copies of THE LIFEBOAT souvenir programme while visiting the exhibition.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Members of Tower Lifeboat Crew,
Members of Tower lifeboat crew, including RNLI Corporate Fundraiser Suzanne Jeffrey, with MWBEX Managi Director David Alberto (right) during a visit to the station in September 2002. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs