THE EXPERIENCES of a number of lifeboats in the severe gales last winter led to the appointment in February, 1978 of a working party to examine what more could be done to reduce the dangers facing lifeboat crews in extreme conditions....
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WITH GREAT REGRET we have to report that the Royal North and South Holland Lifeboat Institution lifeboat Christiaen Huygens of Den Helder capsized on March 26, 1975. Two of her crew of three lost their lives.
At about 2145...
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For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Crail, Fifeshire.—The trawler Jane Rosst, of Aberdeen, struck the Harvey Rocfe off Crail, while bound in ballast...
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For the past two years, Mrs Patricia Duncan has held hunter trials in her garden in aid of the RNLI. Her daughter and gardener made the jumps—last year they even achieved a water jump, as well as different shapes and styles through the woods...
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THE following letter comes from the manager of the station of the Eastern Telegraph Company, on that remote spot in the South Atlantic, Ascension Island : " As a result of the receipt of your booklet, The Story of the Life-boat, I had...
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The Bridlington life-boat—a 37-ft Oakley selfrighting type—heading into stormy weather.. - View image in PDF
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Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
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EARL'S COURT, LONDON, JANUARY 5 TO 15 RECORDS AGAIN BROKEN AT RNLI STAND by Heather Deane Assistant Public Relations Officer, RNLI THE SOUND OF BAGPIPES proclaimed the Scottish theme of this year's International Boat Show and further...
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Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.
For years I have lived alongside a famous...
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FIRST EVER LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION PLYMOUTH: JULY 19 - AUGUST 17LIFEBOAT INTERNATIONAL is the slogan chosen for the International Lifeboat Exhibition which is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, from July 19 to August 17. It is...
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