The trimaran Triharda in Yarmouth harbour after her recovery and righting with the Arun class Joy and John Wade in the background.
The damage to the tri was not so extensive as the photograph might imply as the outer hulls... - View image in PDF
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The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., thinks that the idea of creating a form of membership of the Institution for individual supporters is a very good scheme that would give subscribers a sense of participation. He has...
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Gorden Kaye, assisted by Anthony Oliver, delves deep for for the winners amongst some 100,000 tickets stubs. - View image in PDF
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In three years of war our life-boats have rescued 4775 lives. They have rescued more lives in these three years of war than in the last thirteen years of peace. In the four years of the last war they rescued 19 lives every week. In the...
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ON 22nd July last there took place the first telephone conversation between a life-boat at sea and the head office of the Institution in London. On that day the representatives of the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. visited...
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Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy. There was no sign of...
THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....
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An exception- ally heavy gale visited the south-west part of England on the 13th December, and during the height of the gale the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was called out to go to the help of a sailing- ship in distress in the bay. The...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Spurn . Point coastguard telephoned that an ex-R.N.L.I. life-boat, the Ivy Dale, of London, had run ashore off Withernsea and had damaged her rudder. She asked for the...