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The Arun and Fab 3 (Left)
Almost every aspect of boat design is linked. A larger lifeboat, like the Arun or new FAB prototypes, needs a cut-away section amidships to bring the deck close enough to the water to recover survivors. This cut-away section removes volume... - View image in PDF
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First time
4 November 2011: It was a big moment for 17-year-old Matt Ratcliffe, Tobermory lifeboat’s newest and youngest crew member, when his pager went off for the first time. The crew towed home a fishing vessel that had...
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The Norwegian Flag
The Norwegian flag was flying when the model of Cromer's 48ft 6in Oakley lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed was presented to the RNLI at Poole HQ last December, tl 10 r) Frederik Paulson- Linnekogel, brother of the original modelmaker, Frank... - View image in PDF
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Alabama
NOEFOLK, — The barque Alabama, of Helsingborg, Sweden, struck on the Sunk Sands off Hnnstanton on the evening of the 20th November, and then drove over the sands and filled with water. Being timber laden she did" not sink, but went...
C Class
Length 5.3m (17ft6in) Beam 2.2m (8ft Sin) Displacement Approx. 1,300lb Speed 27 knots Range 140 n. miles Crew 3 or 4 Construction Nylon coated with hypalon. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Douglas Matthewson
Coxswain Douglas Matthewson presents to HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, during his visit to Arbroath on May 11, the lifeboatmen who man the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat RNLB Shoreline. photograph by courtesy of D. C. Thomson... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Chris Haw
Bronze Medal Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage for the service to the yacht Be Happy on 28 October 1996 - see Tht Liftbott Winter 1996/7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
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Hm the Queen and Hrh the Duke of Edinburgh
While HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh were touring Fife on July 1, Prince Philip went afloat in Anstruther lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley The Doctors, taking great interest in the carriage launch (above, left and right): in command of... - View image in PDF
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Sheerness: Cliff-fall teen returns with thanks
Four weeks after suffering spinal injuries falling 10m down a cliff on the Isle of Sheppey, 17-year-old
Logan Enfield called in to Sheerness Lifeboat Station to thank the crew who came to his rescue.
Logan, visiting...
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