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RNLI open days give supporters the chance to get up close and personal with state-ofthe- art lifeboats and the volunteers who crew them.
The charity’s Headquarters and Lifeboat College in Poole open their doors to the...
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The Passage of the Motor Life-Boat "Dunleary" from Cowes to Kingstown
By Commander STOPFORD C. DOUGLAS, R.N., Inspector for the Irish District.
THE passage of this boat from Cowes to Kingstown gave her a. test to which Life-boats are not often subjected.
Many'encounter...
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Fire at Sea
'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn. - View image in PDF
with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24 August.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Speed Boat
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
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A Steam Fishing Launch
CADGWITH, CORNWALL,—On the 1st September September a terrific gale of wind Mew from the S., and the sea was very heavy. The Joseph Armstrong Life-boat put off at 3 P.M., and conducted safely ashore one of the steam fishing-launches belonging...
Two Intrepid Travellers John Ford and Melvyn Webster Made a 1000 Mile Dash Last October from St.Helier Jersey to Aith Shetland and Raised £2250 for the Rnli
Two intrepid travellers, John Ford and Melvyn Webster, made a 1,000 mile dash last October from St Helier, Jersey, to Aith, Shetland, and raised £2,250 for the RNLI.
First they flew from St Helier to Southampton, this... - View image in PDF
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A Gannet Aircraft (2)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
Celebrating the Isle of Man's Millennium: Port St.Mary Prepares for the Review of the Sail Training Fleet By Hm King Olaf of Norn-Ay August4 1979 Port Erin and Port St.Mary Lifeboats Are Seen In
Celebrating the Isle of Man's millennium: Port St Mary prepares for the review of the Sail Training fleet by HM King Olaf of Norn-ay, August4, 1979. Port Erin and Port St Mary lifeboats are seen in centre of picture taken from an SAR... - View image in PDF
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Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives 100 years ago The winter 1906 edition of the Journal revealed how John Owston, Coxswain of the Scarborough lifeboat, met King Edward VII after being asked by Lord Londesborough to assist a...
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