The Console Ready For Mounting. - View image in PDF
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More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?
12 MONTHS
to produce a new...
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On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah Jane Turner was...
Cashing up are Richard Wright /centre! with (from left) Cyril, Jean and Neil Tysall and FtNLI area organiser, James Bradbury. - View image in PDF
Photo: Birmingham Post and Mail. - View image in PDF
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Stornoway and Barra Island, Hebrides.— On the night of the 17th-18th October the Norwegian steamer St. Joseph, of Tonsberg, ran aground on the Grey Rocks, in the Sound of Mull. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow...
Corporate fundraising When would you think of all these things together: a car, a train, a cruise ship, a bank and a shop? Are they perhaps all the items you need for a perfect holiday? In fact they are all things that the RNLI corporate...
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On the evening of 9th January, 1924, the fishing smack Irene, of Lowestoft, ran ashore near the South Pier in a rough sea when homeward bound from the fishing-grounds with a load of fish. The Motor Life-boat went out and, with some...
YACHT ON THE ROCKS When a small motor yacht grounded on Longnose Ledge off Kent on 19thJuly, 1971, Margate Coastguard reported at 12.34 a.m. that the vessel was seriously damaged and was in danger of sinking. The crew could be heard shouting...
Bryan and Kalhv Co.x ofWokingham branch, pictured here with their daughter Rachel, organised a trip on the River Thames aboard this magnificent steam launch St. Belle, the property of the Maidenhead Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Built in... - View image in PDF
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At 3.30 P.M.
information was received that a vessel was flying signals of distress, and the crew of the Life-boat Charles Whiiton were assembled and the boat proceeded to sea in a heavy W.N.W. gale. When two miles S. by E....