Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.
Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...
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Colonel the Hon. Harold B. Robson, a Vice-President of the Institution, died on 13th October, 1964, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management in 1933 and was elected a Vice-President in 1955. He served on the general purposes...
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Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C..R.N., who was Chief Inspector of Lite-boats when war was declared and was called back at once to the Navy, served for four and a half years until in the spring of 1944 he was released at the urgent request of the...
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... and (left) after the Duchess had named Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II, she and the Duke are welcomed aboard by Coxswain John Dare and his crew.. - View image in PDF
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Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF
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THE past year up to within the last ten days of September was a singularly uneventful one as regards Life-boat work; in fact, on the 22nd September the number of lives rescued by the Life-boats only totalled 65, and had the weather continued...
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Where the rocks and the tide race meet off the Lizard seen from the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat. (See page 240 'Race Casualty'.). - View image in PDF
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H.M. The Queen Inspecting the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Life-Boat Crew During the Royal Tour of the Island Which She Made In July, Accompanied By the Duke of Edinburgh, Who Is Seen Below With the Crew of the IRB. - View image in PDF
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Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
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Sunderland, Co. Durham.—The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irttiin was launched at 11.20 P.M. on the 26th October, and returned after a fruitless search for a fishing boat with two men on board, at 4 A.M. on the 27th. She was being...