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Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
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A light in the Darkness
Tonnes of timber were heaped along the English south coast last Winter – but what became of the cargo ship’s crew? Carol Waterkeyn hears the full story of Ice Prince, the men who went to her aid, and the RNLI’s first Silver Medal for 3...
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MANY HAPPY RETURNS
More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?
12 MONTHS
to produce a new...
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Night Passage By Wallace Lister Barber
SARAH TOWNSEND poRRiTT, stationed at Lytham-St Anne's, is a 46' 9" Watson lifeboat with a beam of 12' 9" and displacement of 24 tons 9 cwt. She was built in 1951 and as lifeboats go she is considered to be getting on in...
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St.Mary's Isles of Scilly
ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Classes
a s p o t t e r ' s g u i d e Why are there so many different designs of lifeboat when the purpose of every lifeboat is so similar-the saving of life at sea? Surely, one might think, all lifeboats are designed to weather the worst of...
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Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Developed By Rnli from a Design Originated at Atlantic College South Wales Hull Flat-Bottomed for Beaching Is Marine Ply Or Grp With Infla
Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat developed by RNLI from a design originated at Atlantic College, South Wales. Hull, flat-bottomed for beaching, is marine ply or grp with inflatable topsides. Console seat for crew of three contains radio. Speed... - View image in PDF
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Duckhams Oils Ltd
Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...
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Duckhams Oils Ltd
Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...
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Ben Meidie
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkneys. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall informed the honorary secre- tary at Longhope that the trawler Ben Meidie of North Shields was ashore on the Pentland...