PLYMOUTH, JULY 19. A brilliant day with the sun beating down on a cluster of white marquees in West Hoe Park, close by the sea; an atmosphere of cheerful expectancy; flags flying; the Royal Marine Band breaking into the gaiety of...
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Naming and Dedication AT ST MARY'S, ISLES OF SCILLY, SHOREHAM HARBOUR AND FISHGUARD St Mary's, Isles of Scilly THE ISLES OF scii.i.v's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, donated by Mrs Esme Edgar and her son, Mr Anthony Edgar, was...
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THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...
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. . . and (left) a later Atlantic 21 after the design had been further developed by the RNLI base team at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
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OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
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INFORMATION relative to the Life-boat and other Life-saving Services of other countries moat always be of great interest to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which, being the oldest Life-boat Service in the world,...
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JULY 20TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The life-boat crew had assembled to take the life-boat to Dartmouth for the life-boat flag day there, when, at 12.56 in the afternoon, Brixham coastguard reported a small boat in Babbacombe Bay in need of help,...
AMONGST the most interesting and im- portant subjects which, from time to time, have been treated in The Life-boat Journal, is that of the means to be resorted to for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and it is one in which the...
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