Four life-boats searched for survivors in the North Sea when the oil drilling rig Sea Gem collapsed on Boxing Day with the loss of eight lives. Here one of the lifeboats is standing by at the buoyed wreck. - View image in PDF
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cLose up meet the family Building a strong and happy family can be a tough task for anyone but this is exactly what The Lifeboat College is attempting to do for the RNLI. Four members of this charity ‘family’ tell Liz Cook and Carol...
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RNLI Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle and Captain Song Jiahui, Director General of the China Rescue and Salvage Bureau, met in Shanghai in November 2005 to sign a five-year cooperation plan between the two organisations following the sale... - View image in PDF
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What Are You Collecting For ?. - View image in PDF
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Teams line up to rare for the 2003 Inter Services Trophy at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. - View image in PDF
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Monet's Masterpiece For just £169 you can spend a three day break visiting some lovely gardens in Northern France, including world famous Monet's Garden at Givemy.
The superb flower beds and archways of...
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Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson
The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...
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In 2013, we’ll start replacing Mersey class lifeboats with the next generation of all-weather lifeboat – the Shannon class. At £1.5M a piece, why are we doing it?
The Mersey class lifeboat...
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Fig. 5: New sacrificial anodes are fitted to afloat boats each year. The wastage caused by electrolytic action can be seen by comparing new anode with old one just taken off Edian Courtauld: Ji/6 of metal had been eroded in twelve months at... - View image in PDF
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