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(Left) the Tank Test Models Were Fitted With a Lawn-Mower Engine, Radio Control and Motion Sensing Instruments for Freerunning Seakeeping Trials.
(Left) The tank test models were fitted with a lawn-mower engine, radio control and motion sensing instruments for freerunning seakeeping trials.. - View image in PDF
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The Lifeboat Service In Two World Wars
THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
Category: Articles
A Tubular Life-Boat
The " Caroline Richardson " stationed at Rhyl from 1896 to 1939. She was the third and last of this type, which was designed in 1850. All three were at Rhyl. This type had a double hull, consisting of two floats, meeting at each... - View image in PDF
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Maxstoke Castle
Maxstoke Castle, near Colehill, is open to the public on only two days of the year, each time in aid of a charity. The turn of the RNLI (above) was a huge success when on a beautiful afternoon last July £1,795 was... - View image in PDF
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(Top Right) a Complete Atlantic 'service'
(top right) A complete Atlantic 'service' was staged each day. Starting with the launch, seen here, and taking in the spectacular net recovery in the DoDo (Drive on Drive off) trolley it finished with the turning and repositioning of... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. State of Georgia
SOUTHEND, CANTYRE.—The Life-boat John R. Ker was launched at 10.30 P.M.
on the 17th February, and remained by the S.S. State of Georgia, of Glasgow until two steamers arrived on the following morning and took her in tow,...
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Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...
Fishing Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk. — About six o'clock on the morning of the 29th of June, 1953, six local fishing boats put to sea in fair weather, but a swell developed and it became misty. At ten o'clock a man told the life-boat honorary...
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EMERGENCY CALL At 9.15 p.m. on the same day the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young man was suffering from severe head injuries after an accident. No other boat was available and as it was imperative to take the patient to...