Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
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THIRTEEN new motor life-boats were named during 1952. Six were on the English coast, at Barrow-in-Furness, Clacton-on-Sea, Hoylake, Minehead, Padstow and Plymouth; four on the Scottish coast, at Aberdeen, Eyemouth, Gourdon and Whitehills;...
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MARCH 8TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 2.28 P.M. the coastguard called for the life-boat to go out to a steamer to bring off some wounded men. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched...
A D V E R T I S M E N T A TRUE STORY ABOUT RELIEF FROM Some years ago, I suffered a slipped disk - a common enough problem but I made the mistake of not resting and letting nature take its course. The end result of this was that the...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MA R C H 2 7 T H . - B O U L M E R , NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian coast...
To mark the retirement of Willie McEachern, motor mechanic at Islay for 25 years and a lifeboatman of 40 years service, he and his wife were guests of honour at a carnival dance in December—a gathering of friends and colleagues. During the... - View image in PDF
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First skin is laid diagonally: a plank which has been offered up and shaped to lie snugly with its neighbour is cramped into position and fastened to the solid timbers of the boat's frame.. - View image in PDF
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On the night of 14th October last year the Buckle, Banffshire, life-boat Laura Moncur and a Shackleton Mark 3 of No.
120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, took part in a search and rescue exercise. The life-boat carried a second... - View image in PDF
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Flowers all the way . . . a well dressing at the village of Dore (right), and (below) a model lifeboat 'floats'' on a rough, breaking sea of grey and white plants at Brentwood.. - View image in PDF
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52-02, Sir William Arnold stationed at St Peter Port, and 54-03, Civil Service and Post Office Fund No. 37. on trials together off Guernsey, Note cut down freeboard on side decks and development of wheelhouse, flying bridge and stowage of... - View image in PDF
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