Lenvick's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Soldian, exercising with H.M. Coastguard's rescue helicopter, based at Sumburgh. Photograph by courtesy of Mrs McKewan, Bressay. - View image in PDF
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Tenby's Tyne class lifeboat RFA Sir Galahad, pictured with her Royal Fleet Auxiliary namesake Sir Galahad. The lifeboat is named to commemorate the RFA ship lost during the Falklands conflict (Photo Gareth Davies). - View image in PDF
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Split-second timing is needed with many manoeuvres, none more so than the emergency beaching procedure - the outboards must be raised at exactly the right moment. - View image in PDF
(Photo David Parker). - View image in PDF
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Four life-boats searched for survivors in the North Sea when the oil drilling rig Sea Gem collapsed on Boxing Day with the loss of eight lives. Here one of the lifeboats is standing by at the buoyed wreck. - View image in PDF
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CABOTOAN.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 9th February, the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Glare was launched during a fresh gale from the N.N.E. to N., squally weather and a heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men from the schooner...
On the 29th Oct., 1868, during a hard gale, a smack, which was riding heavily in a danger- ous position outside the roadstead, hoisted a signal of distress. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was launched, and proceeded out, when it was found...
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—Bv ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th of December, 1956, a strong southerly gale had sprung up. The sea was very rough, and as the local fishing fleet was at sea it was decided to launch the life-boat....
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him and the crew and sending a donation to the station. He said, '/ have been sailing various boats at sea for 21 years and suppose that I have always had it at the back of my mind that the lifeboat service would come to my assistance in... - View image in PDF
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