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Submerged Tractors
This photograph shows the extent to which the Tractors for launching Life-boats have been made immune from water. The water can be plainly seen pouring through the engine of the Tractor In front.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Engine Room Fig 1 (Above)
Engine room. Fig. 1 (above) Tank top has been fitted between starboard engine bearers, forming top of starboard watertight double bottom, and plywood floors (pierced with ventilation holes) have been fitted in wing compartments.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Spitfire Aeroplane (5)
MAY 3RD. - BLACKPOOL, AND FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea six miles west of Blackpool. The Blackpool life-boat could not launch at once as the tractor was engaged in an attempt to salve another...
Gardner Engines (Sales) Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Kestrel
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 12.15 early on the morning of the llth September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht on passage from Humber to Bridlington was overdue. The life-boat Tillie Morrison,...
A Motor Vessel
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—17th September, 1938. A motor vessel was flying a " not under control " signal, but she was taken in tow by a drifter.
The branch president, Sir Christopher Furness, Bt., went out in the...
Petite Micheline and Vers le Destin (1)
Arklow, and Wicklow, Co. Wicklow.— At 6.15 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1953, the Valentia Radio Station told the Arklow life-boat station that the French trawlers Petite Micheline and Vers le Destin had wirelessed that they had...
Southern Region Grand Draw 1983
Southern region grand draw 1983 raised a magnificent £25,300. The draw was made at Poole HQ on October 25 by BBC TV reporter Anne Dawson, and the first prize, a Ford Fiesta Popular car, was won by Rupert Thomas of Burghfield Common,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Endeavour and Amelia
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1954, the life-boat coxswain reported that the fishing boat Endeavour, lying off Eyemouth, had wirelessed the fishing boat Amelia, which was in the harbour, asking if...
Bridlington Life-Boat Escorts Fishing-Boat In Gale
Bridlington Life-Boat Escorts Fishing-Boat In Gale. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs