Planks of Honduras mahogany, cut for the skin of a life-boat, which warped while being steamed in order to be bent to the shape of the boat.. - View image in PDF
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DUTCH TRAWLER ASHORE Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.50 p.m. on Saturday the 31st of August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch trawler V.L.79, Maas of Vlaardingen, was ashore on the Saltscar rocks, three-quarters of...
YACHT DRIFTS 400 YARDS FROM SHORE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.20 on the afternoon of Sunday the 8th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that an auxiliary yacht had been broken down for three-quarters of an hour about...
SEARCH FOR SEAMAN At 2 p.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard asked 'the honorary secretary if the life-boat would launch to search for a seaman who was missing from the Belgian trawler Zeebrugge 476 which had sunk at 9.20 a.m. two...
At 2 p.m. on 2ist October, 1966, two fishing vessels were being carried on to Barnard wharf. The motor fishing vessel Irene had fouled her propeller and the motor fishing vessel Goodwill had broken down while towing her. Only the Irene had...
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 1.14 p.m. on 20th May, 1967, it was learned that an upturned dinghy was drifting in the direction of Rhyl one mile off the Golden Sands holiday camp. The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 1.25 in a gale...
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Tenby's new ILB house was dedicated on Sunday, September 11, 1977, when The Hon. Manning Philipps, MBE, Lord Lieutenant for Dyfed, declared the boathouse open and unveiled a commemorative plaque. The service of dedication was led by The... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 29TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the help of the life-boat was not needed. - Rewards, £16 14s. 6d..
AN ADDRESS BY SIR GODFREY BARING, BT.
CHAIRMAN OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INSTITUTION ON 10th. JULY, 1941..
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