THE following Circular*, which has been issued by the Board of Trade to Life-boat Committees throughout the United Kingdom, provides, under certain indispensable conditions, for the increased efficiency of the lifeboat service.
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Poole: (above) Cheerful greetings for the new 33ft Brede class lifeboat RNLB Inner Wheel as she returns to Poole Town Quay after making a short demonstration trip in the habour.. - View image in PDF
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Committee members of Helston and Porthleven branch Stan Llovd (bicvc/e) and Graham Fern (counter balance) are helping to improve the balance of their branch's account in this tigh! wire act across the entrance to Forth/even Harbour. It... - View image in PDF
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This photograph of the life-boat stationed at 1'Ile de Sein appeared in the March issue of the review " Realites " following an article on the boat by M Raymond Levard and is reproduced by kind permission of the Societe... - View image in PDF
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Helmsman Donald Jones (right) has been awarded a bronze medal and Crew Member Paul Frost a medal service certificate for the rescue, in a force 7 gusting 9 wind, of two boys cut off by the tide. photograph by courtesy of Philip... - View image in PDF
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The Lifeboat Mersey class ON 1169 Marine Engineer The Crew • Bronze Atedgf Co» swain Fr«d WalMngton for his 'courage, seamanship skills.
competence, local knowledge and professional...
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THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
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(Below) The race horse Shore Line; her name has no connection with the RNLI but her owners are lifeboat supporters.. - View image in PDF
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TWO LIFE-BOATS IN NIGHT SEARCH Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys.
At 8.17 on the evening of the 27th May, 1963, the motor mechanic informed the Stromness honorary secretary that the family of a man who had gone out in the...
The Swanage, Dorset, life-boat R.L.P, being rehoused on 21st June, 1969, with the two men she had rescued from the yacht Lydos.. - View image in PDF
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