Littlestone - Atlantic 21 Lady Dart and Long Life II Littlestone's latest Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable, Lady Dart and Long Life II, was named and dedicated at a ceremony at the town's lifeboat station on 6 July...
Category: Inaugurations
In Trifle, a 40' trimaran built at Wadesbridge in 1966, General Farrant found a cruising boat which would plane like a dinghy. In her he held the record for the offshore Crystal Trophy race from 1968-1975—and completed a Round the Island... - View image in PDF
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— About 7 P.M. on the evening of the llth January a signal of distress was seen from a vessel at anchor in Caldy Road.
There was a moderate to strong south westerly gale at the time accompanied by a heavy ground sea and the...
Bridlington lifeboat, the 37' Oakley William Henry and Mary King, launches to escort fishing cobles and motor fishing vessels back to harbour through strong gale force winds: January 28, 1975.
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 17th day of March, 1863, The Eight Honourable LORD LOVAINE, M.P., P.O., in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
(Above) The new Atlantic boathouse at Penarth in South Wales was designed to provide modern accommodation for the lifeboat and crew yet harmonise with traditional sea front buildings nearby.. - View image in PDF
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" How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Merchant of Vawx, IF the faint twinkling of a candle's light was calculated to awaken so beautiful an idea in the mind of our great...
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Wick's New Tyne Class Lifeboat Norman Salvesen Lies Alongside The North Pier For Her Naming and Dedication Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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On the afternoon of the 15th, the gale then blowing very heavily, accompanied by squalls of rain, a vessel was seen driftii; g towards the shore at Donna Nook, which soon afterwards struck on the Hale Sand. The alarm was given at the...