The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Llandaff blesses Barry Dock's two lifeboats, the 52' Arun and 41' Watson Susan Ashley during a service of re-dedication and thanksgiving on Sunday, August 22, 1976, to commemorate the... - View image in PDF
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ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...
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Figureheads were a feature of this fishermen's hut (left) which once stood near the harbour mouth at Lowestoft, Suffolk. The figureheads shown below portray (left to right) William IV, the Sailor King1; a woman who once adorned the bow... - View image in PDF
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Of the 11 new life-boats ordered in 1971 four were of the 44-foot steel Waveney class, three of the 37-foot Mark i Rother (above), two of the 50-foot steel Thames (below), one of the 52-foot Mark II Arun and one of the 71-foot steel Clyde... - View image in PDF
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Boule me over! Treliske Cellar Supplies of Truro are staunch supporters of the lifeboat service. Five years ago the company's managing director, Bill Peaker, came up with the idea of playing the French game ofboule and organised the...
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. . . First service of Aberdeen's new lifeboat, the 54' Arun BP Forties, on July 28, was to Peterhead fishing boat Westerdale, which reported flooding in her engine room. BP Forties reached Westerdale, 38 miles offshore east of... - View image in PDF
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The RNLI’s very last Arun class lifeboat on service (right) is finally withdrawn, replaced at Calshot by a former relief Tyne class (left). The first Arun, named Arun, was built in 1971 and had a wooden hull. The last, Duke of Atholl, was... - View image in PDF
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A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...
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(Tht figures refer to the number* of the Life-loatt detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.) A. F. H., 135. Dixon, Miss Anne, 45. Ionian, E. Esq., 179. Pooley, G. Esq.., the late, 265, A Lady, 16. Rixon, Miss, 249. lonourable...
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INVERGORDON, ROSS-SHIRE. On the 21st of August, 1946, the Invergordon and Balblair motor ferry boat was on a run to Invergordon when, at 4.20, she saw a naval whaler capsize. A north-east wind was blowing against the ebb tide and raising a...
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