TOWED MOTOR BOAT At 11.54 a-m. on 25th November, 1965, the east pier watchman saw a motor boat in difficulties off Broadstairs.
The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis set out at 12.7 p.m. in a southerly gale force wind and a...
At Earls Court, Ravmond Baxter, chairman of the Public Relations Committee, presented RNLI Public Relations awards to Alun Richards, the author (second from left, back row I. BBC Wales and The Mumbles lifeboat station for their various... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboats and wrecks of Cornwall Spend a long and relaxing weekend in Cornwall, learning about wrecks and lifeboats.
Based at St. Ives. two weekends will be held in February and March 1979.
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Every Christmas artist John Lee, a great supporter of Weymouth lifeboat, auctions one of his paintings to raise funds for the RNLI; in the past few years £680 has been raised in this way. Last Christmas an oil painting ofWeymouth's... - View image in PDF
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Since experimental trials in '63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now over 100 of them in regular use as well as the 135 conventional lifeboats. Last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft, were called out 1,291...
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Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 12 February 1990, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,422 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,478 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...
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FAI.MOUTH, NOVEMBER 15, 1987: harnessed into a helicopter strop, WEM J R Stevenson is lowered gently from the boat davit of his ship HMS Challenger to the deck of Falmouth's 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant after... - View image in PDF
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BARRU MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES DM I I INSHORE AlHL.1 LIFEBOATS for over 25 years to the As a result of an appeal to raise funds by the Lawnflite garden machinery division of E.P.BARRUS Ltd.
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AUGUST 23RD. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. At 8.45 P.M. a message was received that a flare had been seen a mile S.W. of Ballycotton Light. A moderate N. wind was blowing with a slight sea. At 9 P.M. the motor life-boat Mary...