THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....
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GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
The Isle of Man and will always be synonymous with the RNLI, for it was here in Douglas Bay during the early part of the last century that Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, witnessed at first hand, the plight of seafaring...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Portquin Bav, Cornwall, December 15, 1979: Padstow lifeboat, the 48ft 6in Oakley James and Catherine Macfarlane stands by the Greek freighter Skopelos Sky in an onshore storm gusting to hurricane force. photograph by courtesy of John... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 8TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
The reserve motor life-boat City of Bradford was being taken by a Ballycotton crew from Ballycotton to Baltimore, when about 2.30 in the afternoon she saw a fishing boat two miles...
The figurehead carried by the Trifolium when she came ashore at Land's End in 1914.. - View image in PDF
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Time of Launching.
Jan. 3. 4.54 a.m.
„ 5. 8.40 p.m.
7. 11.10 a.m.
„ 8. 11.40 a.m.
„ 9. 9.30 p.m.
„ 11. 1.25 p.m.
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A fragment* 'MIDST the thick darkness Death, The dread inexorable monarch, stalked ; And, lo! his icy breath Encircled the devoted barque where talked, Or laughed, or watched, or slept, The doomed three hundred of her living freight,...
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