THE SCENE OF ACTION now moves from the design office to the boatyard (William Osborne Ltd, Littlehampton) which will have been sent the lines plan of the boat (illustrated at very small scale at the foot of this page). It is the lines plan...
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Margate, Kent - At 3.57 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, it was reported that a yacht had capsized half a mile north of Margate pier. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. u) was launched shortly afterhigh water at 4.10 in a light north...
Down to business! The ceremony over, Margate's crew launch the station's D class lifeboat to tow a dinghy to safety.
...As the last cake crumbs were being brushed away and the bunting untied after the Margate... - View image in PDF
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MAY 21ST. -WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
The trawler Gardar, of Iceland, had been sunk in collision with the steamer Miguel de Larrinaga, but the latter picked up the majority of the Gardar’s crew, and the lifeboat found only...
£ LIFE-BOATS:— £ £ New life-boats for the following stations : On i account — Aith, Aldeburgh, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Dunbar, Islay, Lizard-Cadgwith, Newhaven, Penlee, Port Patrick, ...
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SLOOP AGROUND Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Wells, Norfolk. At 10.40 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the Skegness honorary secretary that the sloop Hod o' the Wind was overdue on passage from Boston Ham to Gibralter Point...
THE severe storms which visited the British Isles during December last were marked by a number of splendid services, and in the case of the Fish- guard Life-boat by one of the finest anywhere on the coast in recent...
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Anthony is presented with a memento of his 14 years as RNLI lottery promoter by Ian Ventham, head of fundraising and marketing - a mini lottery drum and plaque!. - View image in PDF
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What is involved in running a successful RNLI branch and how does it work? Lifeboat speaks to two branch officials from very different corners of the Institution - John Dennison, chairman of Uckfield and Heathfield branch in Sussex, and...
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MAY 17TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 4.36 P.M. the coastguard reported that a German aeroplane was attacking shipping about two miles south of the harbour, and a few minutes later that the aeroplane had crashed on fire. The motor...