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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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January 1988 Albert Groom, vice president of the Canvey Island branch. Mr Groom was associated with the branch for 21 years and will be remembered in the Maldon and Ipswich area as the owner of several Thames barges. Whilst based at Maldon...
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HELIOGRAPH FLASHES At 8.2 p.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor-boat appeared to have broken down. Her crew of four were waving and flashing a heliograph.
The tide had...
At 6.10 a.m. on 5th June, 1966, a message was received that the m.f.v.
Good Hope had reported by radio telephone that she had run out of fuel while on passage from Jersey to Plymouth, and was drifting about 15 miles off...
JANUARY 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.25 P.M. a message was received from the naval authorities that a steamer had gone aground in Weymouth Bay. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 10.5 P.M. the motor...
The smaller of the two Norwegian boats, Ragni Berg, stood by a Dutch yacht in trouble off Esbjerg on her passage from Norway. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Dag Pike. - View image in PDF
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Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.
Although he...
Visitors to the London Storm Force Rally on 12 August take a close look at some of the models on display.. - View image in PDF
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