This magnificent model of an American steam engine of the 1870s was made by Mr E. W.
Sheppard of Sherwood, Nottingham, seen here running the engine for children's rides.
Mr Sheppard turned his hand to... - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 121 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 53 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1934 63,663 H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G.
Presidential...
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JANUARY 30TH - 1ST FEBRUARY. SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and with the help of fifty soldiers the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 12.6 P.M.
A light S.W. wind was...
Early on the morn- ing of the 1st October, during a strong wind from S.S.E., and ha very thick weather, signals of distress were observed off a dan- gerous part of the coast, about a mile and a half from this place, and near the village of...
The New Anstruther Life-Boat The Doctors Entering Harbour On Arrival at The Station. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 20TH - 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
During the afternoon of the 20th the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was watching a ship to the south of Skegness pier, and just before eight o’clock the coastguard...
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...
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Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...
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WHEN it is remembered how large an amount of property, and "what numberless human lives have been sacrificed by the loss of vessels during the night, and more espe- cially on the outlying sandbanks and rocks around out own. coasts, it...
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WINCHELSEA.—On the 22nd December, at about 6.45 P.M., signals of distress were reported to have been shown about two miles west of the Life-boat station. The Storm Sprite Life-boat proceeded, and with some difficulty succeeded in rescuing...