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Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Viii—Ballast Keel
MORE THAN TWO TONS of mild steel are forged into the Rother's ballast keel.
Together with such heavy members as the twin diesel engines, set low in the hull, the purpose of the ballast keel is to lower the centre of...
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The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are—
1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
SWANSEA —On the 4th May, 1872, the Life-boat Wolverhampton, stationed at the Mumbles, proceeded to the assistance of the ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, which had gone ashore near the harbour during a strong gale from the W. Some of the crew of...
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Women's Work By Ray Kipling
Women's Work . . .
. . . IN THE RNLI IT IS NEVER DONE.
by Ray Kipling DEPUTY PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, RXLI '/ don't know where we would have been sometimes without the ladies. No credit would...
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A Watson Cabin Life-Boat for the U.S.A. American Tribute to the Boats of the Institution
WHEN Rear-Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, and the other American delegates attended the second International Life-boat Conference, which was held in Paris last June, they visited Life-boat Stations in...
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A Fire at a Building Yard. Three Life-Boats Destroyed
ON 18th June a fire at the building yard of Messrs. Groves and Guttridge, Cowes, destroyed three motor life-boats and a quantity of the Institution's timber. The life-boats were those from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Selsey, Sussex,...
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A Scottish Life-Boat Visits Nottingham
THE new Aberdeen life-boat Hilton Briggs, of the 52-feet Barnett (Strom- ness) type, which left the building yard at Cowes on the 17th of August of last year, broke her journey by sea to her station, to travel up the River Trent from Hull...
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Cordon Rouge adventure
The RNLI has been named charity of the year by the Champagne G.H. Mumm Cordon Rouge Club, whose members include explorers and adventurers such as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, Ben Fogle and Dee Caffari.
The...
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