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Breydon Merchant
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
Breydon Merchant (1)
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.Lifeboat Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI. Prices Sin by Sin - £17.63, 10in by 10in -...
Category: Articles
Busy Month at Port Talbot
September was a busy month for Port Talbot lifeboat station - with the naming the station's new D class lifeboat and a Royal visit by RNLI President HRH the Duke of Kent KG taking place in just over a week of each other.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Front Cover
A contrast in conditions for Lerwick's Severn class Michael and Jane Vernon. The main photo shows her on trials before going on station while the inset shows her alongside Green Lily in Force 11 winds. The service won her coxswain Hewitt... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Making a Splash.
Newbiggin's tractor " illustrates what waterproof really means while recovering the station's Atlantic 21! The lifeboat had been launched on 25 January when gale „ force winds caught | the local fishing fleet at sea in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Comedy Drama Role for Port Isaac Lifeboat
Truculent, tactless, and causing mayhem. No, not the lifeboat crew but Martin Clunes starring as Doc Martin, a GP who arrives in the small, sleepy Cornish hamlet of Port Wenn (better known to locals as Port Isaac). The six-part series stars... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three More Beaches
Woolacombe, Croyde and Blackpool Sands beaches in Devon have been added this Summer to the 59 others already patrolled by RNLI lifeguards. Visitors to these beaches have already benefited from the eagle-eyed vigilance and professional... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (65)
APRIL 26TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A British aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but later it was learnt, that other boats were near the place, and the life-boat was recalled by wireless. - Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (140)
SEPTEMBER 13TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was later recalled, as news was received that the aeroplane had landed at her aerodrome.- Rewards, £6...