Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
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(left) A group of retired lifeboatmen from Lowestoft in the last century. When the picture was taken their combined ages totalled 312. (I. to r.) William Hook, 75, James Burwood, 76, Thomas Coleman, 80, and Matthew Coleman, 81.. - View image in PDF
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Plymouth, South Devon.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of June, 1956, the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out from her ] moorings on an exercise in a smooth sea. A fresh north-north-westerly breeze was blowing, and...
(Far left) The 'picking' is under way as Mary Thomson and Juliette Kay check their baskets. A simple system checks the goods against both the order form and the delivery note. So mistakes can't happen, can they?. - View image in PDF
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Whit by, Sunday October 19, 1980: At 1030 a converted ship's lifeboat was seen heading towards the harbour entrance.
Conditions were very dangerous, with a very heavy swell and breaking seas at the bar and in the... - View image in PDF
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£ LIFE-BOATS:— £ £ New life-boats for the following stations : On i account — Aith, Aldeburgh, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Dunbar, Islay, Lizard-Cadgwith, Newhaven, Penlee, Port Patrick, ...
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(Right) The carriage is positioned and tilted to receive the boat's stern . . ,. - View image in PDF
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[The following notes on rescues by helicopter have been issued by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for the guidance of yachtsmen.] AT present three types of helicopter are used for sea rescue work around the coasts of the United...
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WE are gratified in being able to make public the following instructions for the guidance of those who being themselves able to swim, may have opportunity to go to the aid of their drowning fellow creatures.
The writer of...
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Below: The Zetland her launching carriage. - View image in PDF
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