David James is a young member of the Bridgnorth branch committee. He built this lifeboathouse out of Lego bricks and asked people to guess how may bricks were used. The most accurate guess was awarded with a Lego set, donated by the... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking to the east of Peterhead, but other vessels put out, and the life-boat was not launched. At 2.45 next morning the coastguard...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 8.55 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1959, a message was received from the signal station that the local fishing boat Happy Return with a crew of two had left harbour at noon on the previous day and had not...
(Lett) Blyth's D class inflatable was vandalised on 1 August 1989 when the boathouse was entered illegally.
Station mechanic John Scott is pictured in front of the damaged lifeboat holding the knife used to puncture the... - View image in PDF
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Ix September, 1934, a life-boat rescued two men who were seen clinging to a capsized boat. When she reached them they were completely exhausted.
A few days later they made a gift to the station. Not long afterwards one of...
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The Eastbourne lifeboat Jane Hollandwas one of several RNLI boats involved in the Dunkirk evacuation. She was later found, adrift and badly damaged, and is pictured under repair. Mark Child of Collectors' Books would like to locate more... - View image in PDF
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High speed self priming fluid pump that moves approximately 3 gallons per minute. You simply attach to a £" electric drill.
For pumping out.
Engine sumps, boat bilges, fuel tanks...
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The Whitby Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Leaving The Barge After Rescuing The Crew of Four The Whitby Motor Life-Boat Is at The Entrance To The Harbour. - View image in PDF
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel....
JULY 16TH . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.15 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head. A light N.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea, and there was a thick fog....