Fig. 2: After end jacked up so that holes can be drilled through deadwood for keel bolts, the longest bolt being 3ft 6in.. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat station histories The Story of the St Davids Lifeboats by Dr George Middleton Doctor Middleton's 42- page A5 booklet chronicling the history of the lifeboats in this delightful corner of Wales is now in its fifth...
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There have been bonds between the police in Wolverhampton and the RNLI since 1863 when Captain Henry Segrave, the Chief Constable of Wolverhampton, was elected honorary secretary of the newly-formed Wolverhampton branch, and over the years...
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NEWCASTLE, DUNDRUM BAY.—On the 17th April, at 9 A.M., the brigantine Ocean Packet No. 3, of Harlingen, was obliged by strong wind and heavy sea following on an easterly storm, to run .from her anchorage off St. John's Point and drive...
Contents Volume XLI1I Number 448 Chairman: COMMANDER F. R. H. SWANN, CBE, RNVR Director and Secretary: CAPTAIN NIGEL DIXON, RN THE YEAR OF THE LIFEBOAT 1824-1974 Lives Saved: 98,523 Notes of the Quarter by the Editor Service of Thanksgiving...
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As reported in the September issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, T.V. announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the crew of 70-001 when she visited Bristol earlier this... - View image in PDF
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 10.50 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1948, the motor life-boat Tyne- sider was launched, with the honorary secretary, Mr. E. Selby Davidson, on board, to carry out trials with her radio- telephony, and...
Torbay, Devon.—At 1.55 in the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1948, the Brixham coastguard tele- phoned that a motor cruiser was on fire three-quarters of a mile south- south-west of Berry Head, and the motor life-boat George Shee was...
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 15th of January, 1954, the Formby coast- guard telephoned that the man in the Ribble navigation barge Musgrave, moored three quarters of a mile west of Lytham pier, had reported that...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.15 on the night of the 4th of September, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a smallsailing boat was drifting off Rhos- colyn with two youths aboard. At 9.31 the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched...