THE 60-feet Barnett type of Motor Life- boat is the largest, fastest and most powerful in the Institution's Fleet, with the exception of the one Motor Life- boat designed and built for the special circumstances of service in the Straits...
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(Right) Forward cabin, looking aft to engine room bulkhead on which are sited electrical distribution board and first aid stowage. Battery box forms a step forward of hatch. A ventilation trunk runs below side deck and a flexible ventilation... - 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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Below front l-r; Alan Flatten, Michael Frary Back l-r: Alfie Smith, Kevin Parr, Nicky King. - View image in PDF
Gary Wright. Not pictured are Mark White, Jgson Wa|ker flnd Martin Emerson. - View image in PDF
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Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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The first steps inside the new National Collection of lifeboats tell you that this is something very special. Here, for the first time anywhere in the world, the history of a nation's lifeboats and the men who took them to sea is laid...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seriously sick person to Lochboisdale, as the local airport was fogbound. At 11.25 the life-boat Lloyd's put to...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.11 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a canoe with one person on board was stranded on Scroby sands.
At 7.23 the inshore rescue boat...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.10 a.m. on 5th December, 1964, the use of the life-boat was requested to transfer a sick person from Herm Island to Guernsey.
At 5.32 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out into a smooth sea...
19 June: When this eye-catching yacht ran aground with one person aboard, Aldeburgh’s D class lifeboat Christine and Mersey class lifeboat Freddie Cooper had a job to do. It was just after midnight. The yacht was...
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