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Last Summer, RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crews saved the lives of 82 children and teenagers – but they can’t prevent every drowning, as mum-of-two Bethany Hope reports
Tragedy hit the...
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Aberdeen: Coxswain Albert Bird Accepting North Sea Rum from W Massie Area Sales Manager Mackinlay-Mcpherson Ltd on Board the 54Ft Arun Bp Forties Last Fe
Aberdeen: Coxswain Albert Bird accepting North Sea rum from W.
Massie, area sales manager, MacKinlay-McPherson Ltd, on board the 54ft Arun BP Forties last February. Front row (I. to r.): Rear Admiral J. R. D. Nunn, the... - View image in PDF
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H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
Deborah B Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's First Lifeboat Is a 15' Grp Hamilton Jet-Propelled Open Launch from New Zealand on Service Around Bermuda She Will
Deborah B, Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's first lifeboat is a 15' GRP Hamilton jet-propelled open launch from New Zealand. On service around Bermuda she will be operating in waters beset with coral reefs and shallows: she... - View image in PDF
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High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Valentia - Ireland Division Valentia is the RNLI's westernmost lifeboat station, situated on the rugged coast of Co. Kerry, in south west Ireland. The Severn class...
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Julia
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...
A Tug
Tug escorted YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Wells lifeboat station at 1245 on Monday April 11, 1983, that Dockman, a 70ft ex-river tug which had been on passage from London to Newcastle but whose radar and compass...
The Lifeboat College Opens In July 2004 - Artist's Impression
The Lifeboat College opens in July 2004 - artist's impression. - View image in PDF
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Agnes Cairns
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — Rockets and guns having been fired from the Gunfleet lighthouse, intimating that a vessel was stranded on the sands, on the 9th April, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was launched at 9.45 P.M., and found the...
The News Agency Caption Said: 'Life-Boat Designer Mr. Richard Oakley Went Down With His Ship—And Came Up Smiling'
The news agency caption said: 'Life-boat designer, Mr. Richard Oakley, went down with his ship—and came up smiling'. The occasion? Capsizing trials at Portsmouth on 23rd June, 1966, when the second 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat was... - View image in PDF
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