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, and to enabla him to support another person besides himself.<...
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On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...
Penlee, Cornwall - At 8 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed at 7 a.m. on 25th August to land a sick man from a Norwegian motor vessel. At 6.45 the life-boat Solomon...
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Jersey: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother names Thomas James King (below) and (above) meets the 89-year-old gold medallist after whom the new St He Her boat takes her name.
Photographs by courtesy of (above) Jersey Evening... - View image in PDF
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Before the University Boat Race took place on the Thames on 1st April, 1972, Commander P. Thornycroft, V.R.D., R.N.R., M.R.I.N.A., of T.T. Boat Designers Ltd, Bembridge, I.o.W., wrote: 'We have been asked by the B.B.C. if a boat can be...
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LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1907) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Major-General the Right Hon. the Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Major-General Seely). Lord Mottistone was chosen coxswain of the Brooke, Isle of Wight, life-boat last year by his fellow members...
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Blyth, Northumberland.
THE Blyth Life-boat Station was established in 1826, when the Newcastle Branch Association applied to the Institution for a Life-boat, and the Station was taken over by the Institution in 1866. It has...
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