(above) Thames: length overall 50ft; beam 14ft 6in; draught 4ft 6in; displacement 27 tons; maximum speed, 18 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The Thames, introduced in 1973, has a crew of six, she lies afloat. Her hull is... - View image in PDF
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On the 5th May, in a moderate breeze and smooth sea, the barque Queen Margaret, of Glasgow, stranded on a submerged reef of rocks to the south of the Lizard.
The vessel was a large four-masted barque of nearly 2,000 tons,...
On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after- noon their mast carried...
DECEMBER 16TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At daylight the life-boat coxswain saw a yacht at anchor about half a mile from Preston Sands, Paignton. She was in an exposed position, and an east-north-east breeze was blowing, with heavy...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 1.55 in the morning of the 18th of February, 1949, the Kyle coastguard reported that the new motor fishing boat Alliance, of Inverness, was ashore five miles to the south-east of Calve Island in the Sound of Mull...
The Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 8.15 A.M., on the 19th May, to the assistance of two cobles which had put to sea, and had been overtaken by bad weather and rough sea. The danger flag was hoisted at the mouth of the harbour to...
Lifeboat crew gear It costs more than £400 to kit out a lifeboat crew member in protective gear (the equivalent of 26 new Shoreline members).. - View image in PDF
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RNLB City of Bradford III. Photograph by courtesy of Manchester Evening News. - View image in PDF
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6O years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT of 1938 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats. 137 : Pulling & Sailing Life-boats. 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31 si. 1938 65.625 A difficult launch at Exmouth...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.-—At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1949, information was received that a Dutch vessel had stranded on Hantoon Bank, and at 1.55 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...