In all respects ready for sea I was interested to read the article on survey and maintenance of the offshore fleet in the autumn edition of THE LIFEBOAT. Certainly the work involved in the various surveys is enormous, and it is useful to...
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BooKs BOOKS From the history of lifeboats and lighthouses to pastimes for Winter evenings, Carol Waterkeyn reviews what’s new on the shelves this season Sea stories – new writing from the National Maritime Museum Various writers This...
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On the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the Margate life-boat North Foreland. Civil Service No XI was launched in a rough sea to go to the help of the French trawler Notre Dame de la Mer. off Boulogne, which was being driven inshore...
On the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1954, the Clovelly, Devon, life-boat William Cantrell Ashley rescued three people from the ketch Progress. The life-boat had to be brought some ten times under the lee of the ketch before the ketch's...
Ships that pass . . . from an Atlantic 21, Ambrose Greenway took this picture of an experimental 19' Zodiac Mark V, crossing the larger ILITs wash. The Zodiac Mark V has a standing steering position, to give the helmsman better height of... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., who was lost with his crew on the night of 18th March, 1969, while on service (see page 594). He was awarded his first silver medal in 1959for saving 14 from the... - View image in PDF
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Oban's new lifeboat, the first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go on station, was named Ann Ritchie on May 7 (see page 229). The Brede has been developed from a commercial GRP hull produced by Lochin Marine of Rye and she takes her place among... - View image in PDF
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IN 1889 Mr. EGBERT BAYLY, of Torr Grove, Ply month, a member of the Local Committee of the Port of Plymouth Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, published, with the sanction of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, of which he...
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Lifeboat station histories Holy Island Lifeboats by Brian Chandler published by the author at £3.50 For such a small island, only a few hundred yards off the coast of Northumberland, Holy Island has a packed and fascinating history -...
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THE Life-boatmen who had been awarded the Gold and Silver Medals of the Institution in recognition of gallant services during 1914 were present at the Annual Meeting on the 21st April, and were introduced to the Chairman. In the case of...
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