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Rowing Boats
Thames race disaster avertedThe annual Veterans' Head of the River Race ended in chaos on Sunday, 21 March after being hit by gale-force winds and strong tides.
More than 140 boats were participating, with nine crew in...
C.E.C.G
On the loth March, during the afternoon, a message was received that a ketch was apparently running for Montrose, and asking that the Life-boat might be on the look-out for her. An hour later she appeared, and it was seen that she in- tended...
Aurelia
TENDER AND CABIN CRUISER BOTH BREAK DOWN Rhyl, Flintshire. At 9.35 on the morning of the 23rd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tender from the Rhyl yacht club had broken down in an attempt to tow in the...
No. 155
JUNE 6TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
At 8.40 A.M. a request came from the naval officer at Penzance, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat to go to the help of the naval motor launch No. 155, and the motor life-boat...
Cover Picture
A night launch of Hoylake's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Mary Gabriel. Hoylake is one of the RNLI's 23 stations where a lifeboat over ten metres in length is launched by tractor and carriage. The tractor in this picture is the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
David Jolly (Tiller Master)
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER FOR WHEEL OR TILLER STEERING ON A COMPASS COURSE OSTAR 1976 Single handed transatlantic race Nine chose Tiller Masters— Four finished in first eight! SOUR, WIND AND WATER BATTERY CHARGERS AVAILABLE DAVID JOLLY 3...
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David Jolly (Tiller Master)
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER FOR WHEEL OR TILLER STEERING ON A COMPASS COURSE OSTAR 1976 Single handed transatlantic race Nine chose Tiller Masters— Four finished in first eight t SOLAR, WIND AND WATER BATTERY CHARGERS AVAILABLE DAVID JOLLY 3...
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The Hauxley Launchers
This was the last exercise launch of the pulling and sailing life-boat Mary Andrew, before the station was temporarily closed on 17th January, 1939, when the Amble station was reopened, as an experiment, with a motor life-boat. Hauxley will... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eventide
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 15th of October, 1955, the weather worsened while several fishing boats were still at sea.
By ten o'clock all of them had returned to harbour except the local...
2012 - the year of the floods
RNLI lifeboats launched more than 8,000 times in 2012 in a year of poor weather and heavy rainfall. Despite the weather, our lifeguards helped more than 16,000 people.
Meanwhile, the RNLI Flood Rescue Team had their...
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