Among the new lifeboats that were in action (listed in Launches, left) over the Autumn and Winter was Newquay’s D class lifeboat, Enid Mary. Her crew faced a tricky rescue in the surf when a group of students were cut off by...
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COME, now, a cheer for the Life-boat And its gallant, fearless crew; Only give them a chance, lads, And you'll see what they can do.
No matter how dirty the weather, Or how fierce the wind may blow, They're ready...
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The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7£ feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra...
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Stranded BELFAST COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Portpatrick lifeboat station at 0355 on Friday February 26, 1982, that Craigantlet, a merchant vessel on passage from Belfast to Liverpool, laden, had gone ashore off...
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Lionel Scott of the Mumbles.
At the age of twenty-nine Coxswain Scott is one of the youngest cox- swains in the Service. He was appoin- ted in 1955 and first joined the Mumbles...
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On the 30th October the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition.
The Norwegian barque Tamworth having grounded on the Trunk Hill Bank, 3 miles from the shore, the wind blowing a perfect hurricane at...
Workers of 85 and 95 years.
IT is no very uncommon thing to find Life-boatmen able to continue on active service until they have passed the three score years and ten ; but it is not only in the Life-boats that old age...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to ttem, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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John and Naomi Beattie, the last of Aberystwyth's five pulling and sailing lifeboats, on her way along the town front, drawn by willing helpers. She was on station from 1906 to 1932.. - View image in PDF
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