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When three people’s lives were in danger, off-duty lifeguards knew what to do
At 6pm on 16 August 2011, three lifeguards finishing their day at Porthcothan, Cornwall, advised everyone to leave...
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Contents 39 Summary of Accounts for 1979 40 Volume XLVII Lifeboat Services 41 JN UlTlDer 4 IL The Reconstruction of Tenby Lifeboat House, by Ian Haken 47 The Brede: prototype of a new lifeboat based on the Lochin 33 48 Chairman: Here and...
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Bill's Brownies
Bill Coleman, Leamington Spa vice chairman, recently gave a talk on the lifeboat service to the 3rd Warwick (St. Nicholas) Brownie pack.. - View image in PDF
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Anchor man
There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...
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Cav Ltd
Chosen for reliability QUEEN'S AWARD TO INDUSTRY 1966 1967 The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
LUCAS and...
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False Alarms
(N The Lifeboat for November, 1925, two cases were mentioned of Life-boats going out owing to lights on land being mis- taken for lights at sea. In one case the Selsey Life-boat cruised about for three hours and could find no vessel, the...
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Provider A, Pilot Me II, Venus, Lead Us and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1953.
local fishermen reported that bad weather was making conditions dan- gerous at the harbour bar, and at 1.20 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth...
Frazer Picks the Winners
On 30 July actor Frazer Mines (best known as Joe Sugden from TV's Emmerdale) drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 86th lifeboat lottery at RNLI Headquarters in Poole.. - View image in PDF
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An Ex-Landing Barge
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.28 in the morning of the 19th of March, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel two miles south-east of the North Goodwin Lightvessel, was drifting south, apparently with no crew, and the life-boat Prudential was...
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore (2)
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...