NOVEMBER 22ND. - FALMOUTH CORNWALL.
A launch from a motor vessel had been reported adrift, but she was picked up by an American landing craft. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 5th February in- formation reached Grimsby that a fish- ing boat was off the Bull Lighthouse in an unmanageable condition, and was drifting out to sea. A whole N.N.W.
gale was blowing, and the...
THE FIRST LONGHOPE SERVICE SINCE NIGHT OF TRAGEDY THE Longhope, Orkney, life-boat Hilton Briggs, which was sent to the re-opened station following the disaster on 17th March, 1969, in which the entire life-boat crew lost their lives, made...
The simple, almost stark lines of the the boathouse for the carriage-launched Mersey at Dungeness echo the emptiness of the low-lying shingle peninsula on which it stands. To the south the nuclear power station forms an unmistakable man-made... - View image in PDF
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HENDY- LENNOX (INDUSTRIAL ENGINES) LTD Suppliers of diesel powered equipment and specialised services to the RNLI.
See us at the Plymouth International Lifeboat Exhibition, or contact us for an illustrated brochure giving...
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The RNLI has won a prestigious award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
The gold award was given in recognition of the Institution’s commitment to protecting the health and safety of its...
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On the 18th October the same Life-boat was launched, and assisted the fishing coble Palestine, of Cullercoats, and her crew of 3 men and a boy, safely into harbour..
From a boy's essay: "A life-boatman must possess great courage, a spirit of self-sacrifice, and a water-proof.".
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Coxswain Peter Bisson of St Peter Port joined the lifeboat crew in 1980 and became second coxswain in 1984 before being appointed coxswain in 1986. Together with his fellow crew members he was awarded a bronze medal in 1981 for the rescue of... - View image in PDF
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'The Aberystwyth Lifeboat John and Naomi Beattie (1906 - 1932)' painted by Coxswain Lionel Derek Scott BEM and available as an RNLI Christmas card and also as a postcard..
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