YACHT ON THE ROCKS When a small motor yacht grounded on Longnose Ledge off Kent on 19thJuly, 1971, Margate Coastguard reported at 12.34 a.m. that the vessel was seriously damaged and was in danger of sinking. The crew could be heard shouting...
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SHE put to sea on Christmas Eve, And through their tears they saw her leave, And in that happy time of peace The strife of waters well might cease; Bat far away across the foam The sailor found another home.
No more, no...
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With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...
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Some members of Oxton and Claughton RNLI branch, Merseyside, before the start of a 'cheap and cheerful evening' at which they raised £444.
Since the branch was reformed in 1978 it has been responsible for... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Sydney Page, of Southend-on-Sea, has won the thanks of the Institution on vellum for rescuing the crew of a yacht which had gone aground on a sandbank in the Thames estuary in a gale. The night was very dark, with mist; the tide was...
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The new Lymington, Hampshire, IRB which was presented by the Abbey Life Assurance Co. Ltd. to the R.N.L.I.. - View image in PDF
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