Dover, Kent.—At 7.30 P.M. on the 3rd August, during fine weather, the second coxswain saw signals from the base of the cliffs in Langdon Bay, and put off with the second motor mechanic and another man in the life-boat's motor...
Padstow, Cornwall. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the keeper of theTrevose Head lighthouse had reported a capsized boat with someone clinging to her...
Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...
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Shortly after midnight on the 8-9th August, the Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that a fishing-boat was ashore on the rocks behind Keith Inch.
There was a heavy sea running with a strong N.W. breeze at the time, and...
Clacton - on - Sea, Essex.—At 11.6 in the morning of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was reported ashore on the Barrow Sands, flying a distress signal, and at 11.30 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
WALMER.—The Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was launched at about 6 A.M. on the 5th March, during hazy weather, and proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, signalguns having been fired by the Middle light-ship indicating that a vessel was in need of...
Padstow, Cornwall. — 23rd January, 1939. In the early morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary went out to the help of the mine-layer Medea.
The life-boat was buried by a sea which washed away nearly all the gear on...
Whatever the weather, day or night, when the distress call comes, RNLI crew members drop everything and race for their lifeboats. Usually, the only full time member of a crew is the mechanic at all-weather stations and most lifeboat men and...
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Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 520 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: CLAIRE JUDD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI...
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The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by Ti feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-eases, which give extra buoyancy...
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