Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.
THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...
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TOW FOR BOAT FROM SURVEY SHIP Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning red flares three-quarters of a mile off...
Skegness all-weather lifeboat and crew. - View image in PDF
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The four young Whitnalls (left to right) Timothy, now 9 (in cap), Simon, 10 , Mark, 7, and jolly Rebecca, 3j, who wants to be 'a life-boatman'. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of IF. G. Whitnall. - View image in PDF
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A long, hard pull: Tug-of-war between Redcar (seen below), Teesmouth and Runswick Bay lifeboat crews resulted in a win for Runswick Bay and helped raise £637 on Redcar''s lifeboat day.
Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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THE pressure of work thrown on the Board of Trade last year was so great that the Department was unable to issue until the close of the year their very valuable "Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which occurred on or near the Coasts...
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(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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Mike Inkster raised £500 by running from Whitstable via Birchington and Mansion and back, a total of 50 miles. The money was divided equally between Whitstable branch and Cancer Research. Mr Inkster's firm, Pedigree Toys Ltd, kindly... - View image in PDF
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Yachts and pleasure boats represent almost 60% of lifeboat launches, so these were the first target for the RNLI's Sea Safety initiative. Even the most well-found vessel can find herself in trouble, but the aim of the initiative is to... - View image in PDF
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FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...
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