100 years ago It will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting contained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chairman of the Institution, on behalf of the...
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The life-boat, which lies afloat, is seen in the centre. - View image in PDF
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YACHT AND FOUR TOWED TO SAFETY Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.17 on the evening of Wednesday the 18th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares a mile off Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank...
French trawler Kcriolct, towed back In llfracombe in storm force winds by Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), Clovelly's 70' Clyde class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of D. S. Evans. - View image in PDF
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North Sunderland's 1991- built boathouse for the station's Mersey was one of the first of the 'new generation' buildings. A simple, functional design it has masonry cladding to complement the Seahouses coastline.. - View image in PDF
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IN The Lifeboat for March, 1923, appeared an account of the wreck of the Adolf Vinnen, a German five-masted sailing ship, which ran ashore near The Lizard on 9th February of that year, and of thegallant attemptstojcescue her crew made by the...
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(Lower right) The RNLI's Display Co-ordinator Liam McKenna has every right to look exhausted as Saturday draws to a close - most of the vast burden of organising the event falls on his shoulders.. - View image in PDF
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Festivities in Courtmacsherry Harbour during the naming ceremony for the station's new Trent Class Frederick Storey Cockburn with the station's previous boat, the Waveney class Arthur and Blanche Harris, visible astern of the new... - View image in PDF
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