SHARK FISHERS TOWED HOME Torbay, Devon. At 6.55 p.m. on Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Brixham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel was flashing the international distress signal about three and a...
£22,000 from an Anonymous Donor.
A BANKNOTE for £1,000 sent in a regis- tered envelope with the message " One thousand pounds enclosed for the National Life-boat Institution," and then, underneath, "...
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Shoreham Harbour's 37ft 6in Rather The Davys Family was named by Princess Alexandra (above). - View image in PDF
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WALTON - ON - THE - NAZE. — Guns and rockets, indicating that a vessel was in distress, having been fired on the 10th November, the Life-boat Honourable Artil-lery Company was launched at 4.38 P.M., and proceeded under oars to the Sunk Light...
RNLI Clinical Operations Manager Paul Savage, who developed a pioneering casualty care course for lifesavers, was one of four of our people recognised in HM The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
Paul (pictured above) – who...
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Swanage, Dorset.—At 6 P.M. on the 21st August the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported that a man had fallen 150 feet over the cliff near Old Harry Rocks, and was badly injured. Owing to the difficulty of trying to haul him up...
Cheaper marine diesel engines give you a lot more than Parsons.
Quite a lot of marine diesel engines are cheaper than Parsons.
Initially.
But the price tag isn't the only criterion...
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Up, up and away.' Fund raisers launched 1,000 balloons from Si Bernard's School, Barrow to help buv a lifeboat. It was all part of a national event organised by the Keep Fit Association to raise cash for the RNLI. Terry Downing, hon... - View image in PDF
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TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 7th February, during thick weather, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.S.E., accompanied by heavy rain, the brigantine Bransty, of Whitehaven, bound from Newry to Penarth, with a cargo of oats,...
The Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at about 4 A.M. on the 13th February in a N.N.W.
gale and heavy sea in answer to signals of distress from a vessel on the Walpole Rock. The schooner Perseverance, of Fowey, was...