Fig 6: Deckhouse and cabin ventilation is protected from sea water by a combined capsize or anti-flooding air intake valve developed by the RNLI design office. When all is well, air coming in passes through a perforated box, B, past the open...
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After the maiden trip of the latest addition to Lowestoft's trawler fleet, Silverfish, owned by the Colne Fishing Co. Ltd., the owners gave the first kit of fish, one of selected plaice, to be auctioned for the Institution's...
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The Coastguard, at 8 A.M. on the 2nd January, reported that a vessel was ashore on the west end of the Mixon. Reef, and the crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were quickly assembled and the boat launched. They found the barquentine Waterwitch...
ON 18th October the Motor Life-boat at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, saved a life, by acting as an ambulance. A girl of fifteen had developed acute appendicitis and an immediate operation was necessary. There is no hospital in the Isles...
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Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.20 p.m. on 3rd September, 1965, the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a north-westerly wind of gale force and a rough sea to go to the assistance of a motor vessel whose engine had broken down five miles...
FAILED TO START At 9.15 p.m. on the following day, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down between the North pier and Wreck buoy, and the crew were waving for help. Two minutes...
On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the early hours of September 1, 1977, was reported in the winter 1977/78 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Zircon, with four people on board, had run aground...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire-At 1.59 p.m. on 17th October, 1966, it was reported that the master of the motor vessel Contessa, of Rotterdam, needed medical attention. At 2.20 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched with a doctor on board. It...
ABBBOATH.—At about 11 o'clock, on the morning of the 10th October, the attention of the coxswain of the Life-boat was drawn to the dangerous position of two amateur fishing boats outside the harbour bar. The wind was blowing a strong...
Two RNLI lifeguards took a ‘rewarding and humbling’ trip in December 2012 to train other lifeguards in Senegal, West Africa. Lifeguards Tim Doran, from the Causeway Coast, and Vaughan Lawson, from Devon, travelled to Yoff Beach in Dakar, at...
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