THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1936 - - - - 64,752 King Edward VIII and the Life-boat...
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WE have on different occasions in this Journal remarked on'what we conceived to be the imperfection, when taken as a whole, of the present system for rescuing shipwrecked persons from drowning; that whilst, in some localities, most...
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(Above) 44' Waveney class lifeboat, introduced from US Coast Guard in 1964, is first of the RNLI's 'fast afloat' lifeboats. Exceptionally manoeuvrable, her twin General Motors Detroit marine diesel engines give a top speed of... - View image in PDF
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to tht ooat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
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The wind brings us clear blue skies and storms, makes a sailboat sail and chills us to the bone. But have you ever wondered where it comes from? Here the Lifeboat gives you a beginner’s guide to wind and its extreme effects<...
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UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.
In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...
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FEBRUARY Launches 88. Lives rescued 248.
FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a...
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OCTOBER 21ST. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. At about 11 A.M. the harbour master was informed by telephone that a ship’s boat, the Dronze, of Howth, had left Howth at 9 P.M. the previous evening to go to Sutton, four miles...
The late Coxswain Theodor T. L. Neilson of Wells received the thanks of the R.N.L.I, inscribed on vellum for searching for a crashed Lancaster bomber off the Norfolk coast on 14th July, 1942, and (below) a reproduction of the painting by L.... - View image in PDF
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For which Rewards were given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At about 7 A.M. on the morning of the llth January a man was badly injured on board the...
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