Walmer lifeboat with modern-day launching equipment. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber, has won the Institution's gold medal for the second time since the war began. He has won it for rescuing the crew of a trawler which had stranded on a sandbank in a gale. There were heavy snow...
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Dover, Kent. At 1.45 p.m. on 3rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small local motor boat Mary Rose was in difficulty having lost her propeller one mile eastsouth- east of St. Margarets Bay. The life-boat...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
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(above) Richard Perks, inspector of lifeboats for the East Division was in command for the passage to Aldeburgh from the training centre at Poole.. - View image in PDF
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ON SUNDAY MORNING, November 18, the 50ft Thames lifeboat stationed at Islay and the 52ft Barnett lifeboat stationed at Barra Island were capsized while going to the help of a 299 ton Danish coaster whose cargo of marble chips had shifted.<...
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4. Richardson's Tubular Life-boat.—The next coast life-boat to be described is "the tubular." By the model of this boat, which is on the table, it will be seen that it is altogether different in principle to any other boat;...
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Children test their speedway skills on mini motor bikes at one of the sideshows at Tynemouth's harbour spectacular that took place on the afternoon and evening of the royal wedding day last July: it was attended by 15,000... - View image in PDF
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