George Bernard O'Reilly, Skegness deputy launching authority from 1987 to 1994 and between 1995 and 1997. Bernard was also vice chairman and box secretary of Skegness branch and served as a crew member on Skegness lifeboat for over 16...
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ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE Landing Craft G.16.
On the 25th April, 1943, the St. David’s life-boat rescued a survivor from H.M.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM WATTS H. WILLIAMS was awarded the bronze medal..
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Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
Functional "Airflow" Jacket and Overtrousers Royal National Life-Boat Institution "...In 1971 the RNL1 adopte' Functional for Offshore Stations. The clothing has been well received by our crews who operate in severe...
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ON the day on which the International Life-boat display on the Thames finished, and the foreign Life-boats went down the river and out to sea, the Teesmouth Motor Life-boat started on a six weeks' cruise up the Thames. She was in charge...
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Deck Plan.
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Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these...
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Deck Plan.
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Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air...
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AT 3.15 on the afternoon of 5th February, 1963, Niton radio informed St. Peter Port radio in Guernsey that the Norwegian motor vessel Johan Collett needed help immediately. Her position was fourteen miles west-north- west of Les Hanois...
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JUNE 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT, The life-boat rendered assistance after a French warship had been mined, and landed sixty five French sailors who had been rescued by another ship. Later she went out again, with a naval officer on board, and...
"WE WERE SO PLEASED WITH OUR BRILLIANT NEW DRIVEWAY, WE GOT TOWN & COUNTRY TO DO THE PATHS AND PATIO AS WELL." Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the...
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