Sea trials interrupted to rescue seriously ill fishermanThe RNL) knows how to get the maximum benefit from its contractors. DML Ltd, the Plymouth-based dockyard, are responsible for building and repairing some of the all-weather lifeboats....
FIVE RESCUED FROM ROWING BOAT Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1962, the Orlock coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Blackhead lighthouse that a rowing boat with a crew of five...
SHORTLY after the commencement of the war, the finely-equipped Red Cross hospital ship Rohilla, belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Co., whilst proceeding on an errand of mercy to France, went ashore at Saltwick Nab, about a mile...
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baffles of integral water ballast tanks. Hole of transom scoop can be seen on port side. (Right) Flexible neoprene pipes from manifold (inboard of transom) lead port and starboard to water ballast tanks and forward, on port side of... - View image in PDF
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.6 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that No. 18 Group, Royal Air Force, at Inver- keithing had reported that an air search was being made off Whitby for a missing Meteor aircraft. At...
APRIL 21ST. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 4.50 in the afternoon the life-boat motor-mechanic saw a small motor boat about three miles south-south-east of the harbour with a large piece of cloth fixed to a pole. At 5.15 the motor life-boat...
Selsey, Sussex. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 4th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had been reported submerged off Selsey east beach, with two people on...
Rolled over ON TUESDAY EVENING, August 24, 1982, at 1938, Mudeford station honorary secretary and a lifeboatman, John Batchelor, sighted a red flare 2l/2 miles south west of the lifeboat station off Hengistbury Head. Maroons were fired and...
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Newhaven. H.R.H. The Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, at Scarborough and Bridling ton.
EIGHTEEN Inaugural Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held during the five months...
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Far flung fame: Alistair Mdntosh of The United Kingdom Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific sent in this photograph to show the extent of the RNLI influence. The small boy in the middle of the picture is wearing an RNLI tee-shirt.... - View image in PDF
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