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Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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ALL SHOOK UP
Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather
It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...
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Purr Purr
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 6.21 a.m.
on 26th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been sighted in difficulties eight miles west by south of the Skerries lighthouse. The life-boat Lady...
Lifeboat Supporters Keep on Running! Scotland's First People's Marathon
Lifeboat supporters keep on running! Scotland's first People's Marathon was run in Edinburgh on September 5 and a third of the funds raised in the sponsorship which is to be dispersed by the organisers, the South-East Scotland Round... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Classified
LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED THE HOTEL FOR ALL SEASONS Secluded, romantic and wonderful hospitality HOLNE CHASE Nr. Ashburton, Devon Poundsgate (036 43) 471 AA + RAC** Commendation of B.T A.
ISLES OF SCILLY MINCARLO GUEST HOUSE -...
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Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Volunteers are very much at the heart of the RNLI. The charity's lifesaving service could not exist without their passion and relies on an army of willing helpers to go out in lifeboats, to fundraise, to promote safety and...
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Eleni
JANUARY 20TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. On the afternoon of the 20th January the Athlone Broadcasting Station asked listeners to inform the life-boat authorities that a vessel was in distress. She was the Greek steamer Eleni, of...
Henrietta
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
Hoppet
SEATON CAREW,—On the morning of the 5fch December the brigantine Hoppet, of Helsingborg, Sweden, bound from Moss to Seaham with a cargo of pit props, was observed making for the land, during & terrific gale of wind from the E., with snow...
Headcase
The RNLI first issued protective helmets to their Waveney class lifeboat crews in the 1960's At some four knots faster than the older classes of 8 or 9 knot double-ended lifeboats, some concern was expressed about crew members'...
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