The internal combustion petrol engine was first used to convert sailing and pulling lifeboats to motor. One of the first purposedesigned motor lifeboats was John A. Hay. a 42ft self-righter built in 1908 and stationed at Stromness. She was... - View image in PDF
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FIT FOR A "QUEEN'S" LIFEBOA Tana the R.N.L.I.
R.N.L.I. 41ft. Watson type lifeboat with two Parsons 'Porbeagles' installed.
The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cylinder water-cooled...
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Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
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Honours for Hugh
On Friday 6 March, Her Majesty the Queen handed Captain Hugh Fogarty his MBE at...
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Visit to Clovelly: Rudolf Graf meets once again members of the crew who rescued him from the Bristol Channel after his Heinkel bomber had been shot down. (I. to r.) Ex- Mechanic Charles Shackson, ex-Bowman Oscar Abbott, ex-German Airman... - View image in PDF
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TWO CALLS TO DINGHIES IN ONE EVENING Blackpool, Lancashire. At 5.45 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard telephoned to say three youths in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea a mile off Rossall Point. At 6.15...
WHEREIN LIES the essence of good public relations? Who better to ask than Patrick Howarth, for more than a quarter of a century public relations officer of the RNLI? His answer is predictably clear-cut and to the point: 'First of all in...
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Fowey (Cornwall), Weymouth (Dorset), Thurso (Caithness), and Stornoway (Island of Lewis) DURING September four new Motor Life-boats were formally inaugurated, those at Fowey, Weymouth, Thurso and Stornoway. Thus, with the South- end-on-Sea...
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In the early hours of the morning Coxswain Malcolm Gray's pager beeped loudly. As he sat up in ^ bed he heard the clock strike four. Momentarily he wondered what on earth was going...
Whitby: 1235 on Tuesday March 19, 1985. A party of 27 school children with three teachers were reported by a member of the public to be cut off by the tide at Jump Down Bight, 250 yards east of Whitby. Both the relief 44ft Waveney class...