DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...
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Naming ceremonies Henry Alston Hewatai Mallaig Mallaig's new all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after the father of Catherine Hewat of Glasgow, who funded the majority of the £1,8m lifeboat with a bequest in excess of £...
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Blue Peter TWO MEMBERS of the North Berwick, East Lothian, inshore lifeboat crew, Benjamin Pearson and Alexander Russell, have both been awarded the RNLl's bronze medal for gallantry for rescuing a man who was in difficulties on July 26...
RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8.00* The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor lifeboat...
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Flags out for the lifeboats From Pinner to Plumstead, Romford to Richmond, Potters Bar to Petts Wood, members of almost 100 London branches were knocking on doors between 9 and 16 March during the RNLI's London lifeboat...
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Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...
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Lifeboat Services (from page 281) The divers were landed at Horton at 1441 and the ILB was rehoused and ready for service by 1516.
For this service the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Helmsman...
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Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.
ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...
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CONSIDERING what a vast amount of wealth has been every year engulfed beneath the waves since mankind engaged in commerce by sea, it is matter for astonishment that so little has been attempted in an organized and scientific manner for the...
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I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...
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