Engine failure A MESSAGE came from Warden Point Coastguard to Sheerness honorary secretary at 0752 on Monday, May 26, to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down near the outfall buoy and groynes half a mile east of Garrison Point. The...
The launching of an appeal for funds for a prototype 47ft fast slipway lifeboat to be named City of London was held at Fishmongers' Hall by the River Thames on the evening of November 25, 1980. Welcoming the guests, Lord Inchcape,...
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Jeff Morris, the honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society is a prolific source of booklets on individual lifeboat stations and historical lifeboat matters. Few issues of THE LIFEBOAT pass without an opportunity to review...
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January’s storms called our volunteers into action in hazardous conditions that pushed our people and craft to their limits
The New Year had hardly begun when Penlee and The Lizard lifeboat...
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ORG CHESHIRE'S CHAMPION 'Jimmy' hit the roads in 1998 on a nationwide tour to raise funds for The Cancer Research Campaign. Since then, he's raised a six figure sum. With your help he'll do even...
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AMONGST the many appliances which con- tribute to the safe navigation of a ship, none is of more importance than the small instrument termed " a log," by which the distance run can be approximately ascer- tained from day to day, or...
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To BENJAMIN MILLER, on his retirement, after serving 7 years as Second Coxswain and 3 years as Coxswain of the North Berwick Life-boat, a Pension.
To JOHN MORRIS, on his retirement, after serving 11 1/2 years as Second...
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IT is only to be expected that the sub- ject of the erosion of the coast, which in other words means the encroachment of the sea, should be one of considerable interest to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION. The nature of Life- boat...
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