Why is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne (arrowed)?. - View image in PDF
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Douglas Head and Harbour, 1974. Note lifeboat boathouse and slip in outer harbour, or Crough; Fort Anne, above inner harbour; and Si Mary's Rock with its Tower of Refuge at bottom right of picture.
photograph by... - View image in PDF
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Timothy Appleyard (12), son of the Rev. E. Appleyard, vicar of Flamborough, who is chairman of the Flamborough branch, with a model of the Flamborough lifeboat Friendly Forester. It was built for Timothy by Mr. F. Mainprize, a local... - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney lifeboat, Barham, with Lowestoft lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Frederick Edward Crick in attendance. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Yarmouth Mercury'. - View image in PDF
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(Above!. The sophisticated fibre reinforced composite (FRC) construction gives light weight with strength, but needs much planning at the design stage.. - View image in PDF
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(Left) The tank test models were fitted with a lawn-mower engine, radio control and motion sensing instruments for freerunning seakeeping trials.. - View image in PDF
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The trimaran Triharda in Yarmouth harbour after her recovery and righting with the Arun class Joy and John Wade in the background.
The damage to the tri was not so extensive as the photograph might imply as the outer hulls... - View image in PDF
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Dover's Thames class Rotary Service demonstrates her ability to deal with some heavy weather - just one of the reasons for her crew's affection for her.
Rotary Service was the lifeboat involved in the service during... - View image in PDF
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DURING September life-boats went out on service 68 times and rescued 25 lives.
TWICE AGROUND Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of...
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Management.
Thursday, 21st January, 192S.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Reported the resignation of Captain SELWYN H. DAY, C.B., D.S.O., R.N.R., from the Committee of...
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