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IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
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The sailing ship Ardencraig, of Glasgow, foundered off Scilly during the afternoon of 8th January. Distress signals were heard from the Bishop Light-house, and the St.
Agnes Life-boat, Charles Deere James, and St....
The barge Sepoy, of Dover, on the sands at Cromer. Her sails in ribands. Her crew of two men taking to the rigging. A life-saving rocket on its way to her.. - View image in PDF
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Name of Donor or Testator. The late Mr. George Wooflndin
Amount of Gift or Legacy. 630
Date received. 1895
Object. For a George Woofndin Life-boat
How carried out....
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LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st December to 29th February: Launches 201, lives saved 67 DECEMBER No. 3 Life-boat Area Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.49 p.m.
on 16th December, 1967, the coastguard informed...
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Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1956, the local Superintendent of Trinity House rang up to say that a man on the Cross Sand lightvessel had been badly injured. He asked if the life-boat would take him ashore,...
Ix 1946 Colonel Niall Rankin, F.Z.S., F.R.P.S., F.R.G.S., of Calgary, in the Isle of Mull, went out to the island of South Georgia in the South Atlantic.
He sailed in October in a whale factory ship, taking with him a motor...
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. . . and is greeted as she comes ashore at HMS Vernon (right) by members of Walmer crew, at Portsmouth for the handing over ceremony of their new Rather lifeboat, Hampshire Rose. They are introduced by Michael Pennell, divisional inspector... - View image in PDF
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First-aid treatment for a member of the crew of the torpedoed London Trader picked up by the Shoreham lifeboat on July 26, 1940.. - View image in PDF
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