Sea trials interrupted to rescue seriously ill fishermanThe RNL) knows how to get the maximum benefit from its contractors. DML Ltd, the Plymouth-based dockyard, are responsible for building and repairing some of the all-weather lifeboats....
Dora, the colonel's 'pretty' lifeboat saving the crew of Jeune Hortense in 1888. - View image in PDF
Photograph bv courtesy of F. E. Gibson. - View image in PDF
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HMS Kedleston and other escorts accompany City of Edinburgh up the Forth. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of The Scotsman. - View image in PDF
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On the 19th March, the Ramsgate Steamer and Life-boat, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, saved the crew of 8 men from the brig Defender, of Sunderland, which was wrecked on the N.W. spit of the Goodwin Sands during a...
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
At 3.40 P.M.
on the 28th September the Coastguard reported that a barquentine was ashore on the Sunk Sands, and the crew of the Motor Life-boat Albert Edward were promptly assembled. A moderate S.W.
breeze...
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. On the night of the 11th the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat was launched, in very bad weather, to search for two overdue fishing boats. She could not find...
New Brighton, Cheshire. — On the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Speedwell, with the life-boat's second coxswain and a life- boatman on board, had gone out.
On the following morning, as she had not...
Captain Graham C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who died on 10th December, 1931, was appointed a Member of the Committee of Manage- ment in 1922. He brought to the work of the Institution considerable ex- perience in the Mercantile Marine,...
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