Predicting future technology is rarely an exact science. But we couldn't resist a peek into the world of 2074 – and what a lifeboat of the future might look like …
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IN a world in which good news tends more and more to be excluded from the front pages of newspapers, it is gratifying to be able to record that the R.N.L.I.'s record last year was one of consistent and outstanding success. The number of...
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PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the afternoon of Sunday the 15th October, during a S.S.E.
wind and a heavy sea, a barque—which proved to be the Fortuna, of Arendal,Norway, bound from Aberdeen to that port in ballast—came in sight off...
Award to the Peterhead Coxswain THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its "Testimonial on Parch- ment" to Coxswain John Buchan McLean, of Peterhead, a gold medallist of the Institution, for diving fully clothed into Port Henry...
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Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...
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THE first three months of 1958 have offered striking evidence of the help given by life-boats to a great variety of vessels serving the commerce of the country in different ways and, in particular, to fishing boats. Of the 106 launches by...
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US Coast Guard 44ft and 41ft lifeboats as stationed on the New England coast.. - View image in PDF
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Jan, 10.—Two men waded into a heavy surf and assisted to save 15 men from a boat, which, while attempting to land at Seaton, CAREW, with 19 men on board belonging to the Nor- wegian B.8. -Edison and barque Kan, which had been in collision,...
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Additional life-boats to come into production will include those of the 70-foot, 48-foot 6-inch Solent, 44-foot steel and 37-foot Oakley classes. The four types mentioned are shown above in that order.. - View image in PDF
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Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...