Welded aluminium construction is lighter than steel and is well suited to the construction of carriage launched lifeboats, where steel is too heavy and abrasion problems make GRP unsuitable. - View image in PDF
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IT was life-boat day in Greater London, and it was my privilege to help at a depot which was housed in one of London's famous churches. A busy day was coming to a close and the last collector had handed in her box. It only remained for...
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HARTLEPOOL.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N. with a high seaon the 16th May, the brig Rudolf, of Trelleborg, laden, with mining timber, for Hartlepool, was seen driving ashore towards Seaton beach. The No. 2 Lifeboat, Charles...
Supporter recruitment manager, Sharon New, brings us the inside story on a new breed of RNLI street fundraisers and recruiters..
This summer you may come across some Lifeboats fundraisers that you have not seen before. They...
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An aerial picture of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat R. Hope Roberts which is a 48-foot 6-inch Solent type costing about £70,000.. - View image in PDF
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NEWSPOINT Few can complain at the amount of exposure the Institution has received on television recently.
Hardly had the Salcombe- Dased documentary left our TV screens than BBC's 'Blue Peter' took up the...
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MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
Jan. 1.—Voted 81. to 8 men for putting off in the yawl Bravo, of Yarmouth, during a strong gale from the W. on the 29th Nov., and saving the crew of 6 men of the brig Erae, of Sunderland. The vessel had stranded on the Scroby Sand, and her...
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RAMSGATE.—At 3.15 P.M. on the 24th October, during a gale of wind from the W.S.W. and a heavy sea, signals of distress were shows by the Gull Light vessel. The Life-boat Bradford was manned, and went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug...
OCTOBER 20TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
During the morning the motor fishing boat Billow’s Crown, of St. Abbs, was caught in a south-east gale, with a rough sea, while returning from fishing. She had a crew of four. The...