IN 1920 the Institution first experi- mented with a motor caterpillar tractor to be used in place of horses for launch- ing Life-boats on flat sandy beaches.
There are now eleven on the coast.
The type...
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Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
MAN RESCUED FROM YACHT AGROUND Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.4 on the morning of the 19th May, 1963, Walton coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Sunk pilot cutter had reported that a small craft a quarter of a mile south of...
Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.25 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port Isaac that a yacht had fired red flares about five miles west north west of the station. At 7.49 the IRB was launched...
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 9.35 a.m.
on 14th August, 1969, the honorary secretary reported that red flares had been sighted in the vicinity of Nave island. The life-boat Francis W.
Wotherspoon of Paisley...
ME. H. JENKINS, the Lowestoft photographer, whose photographs of lifeboats will be familiar to readers of The Life-boat (one of them will be found on page 212) has, for the eleventh year, produced a fishing fleet calendar. It has fourteen...
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The summary of the year's services by life-boats which has previously appeared in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT will in future be published as a separate supplement. The supplement will be incorporated in all the bound...
Category: Services
A close-up broadside view of the model: note the faithful reproduction of the anchor stowage and of the stanchions and guard chains: it took Mr Turland seven hours to fit just one of the bottle screws. Note also the buo ancy blocks behind... - View image in PDF
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don't forget your flares lads! You may never need them - we hope you never do ! But it makes good sense to carry a pack of signal flares . . . as important as your lifejacket. Just in case ! THE WORLD'S BEST BY SCHERMULY See pages...
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Timothy Appleyard (12), son of the Rev. E. Appleyard, vicar of Flamborough, who is chairman of the Flamborough branch, with a model of the Flamborough lifeboat Friendly Forester. It was built for Timothy by Mr. F. Mainprize, a local... - View image in PDF
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