This year one of the life-boat cards has been designed by an 11 - year old girl, Philippa Mary Dudgeon, of Woking, Surrey, the overall winner of a life-boat Christmas card design competition organised by the children's magazine Look and...
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Runswick, Yorkshire - At 1.40 p.m.
on 19th April, 1967, three Staithes fishing cobles were reported at sea and there was a heavy inshore swell on the bar at Staithes harbour. The life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched at 1...
Double rescue AS MOST PEOPLE were sitting down to their lunch on Sunday, October 19, 1986, Bridlington Coastguard was alerted to a small craft reported to be in trouble off Ulrome. At 1307 the honorary secretary of Bridlington...
Lifeboat Services June and July, 1987 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire D class inflatable: June 24 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21 :} Ay 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 20 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: July 5 and 31 Aith, Shetland 52ft...
Category: Services
Charles Hunter-Pease, Sales and Marketing Director for Volvo Concessionaires (left) presents a cheque for £350.000 to Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI at the London Boat Show. The cheque represented the proceeds of the seven... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
fll Thf MF i&rcnyer anrl transmitter are npar tho rr«w miamhBr'i; Inft tianH with thf» MF Heft) The MF receiver and transmitter are near the crew member's left hand with the MF DF set above The much smaller VHF radio... - View image in PDF
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Prototype Severn and Trent Class Lifeboats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The West and East German lifeboat organisations have now combined to form a single lifeboat service. This is the former West German 'daughter boat' Onkel W/ffi being recovered aboard the parent vessel during a demonstration at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: May 5 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 15 and May 26 (four times) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21 :Mait:h29, 31 (fourtimes), April 12, 20, 24. May 4 (twice) and 25 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed Cclass...
Category: Services
NOV. 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 11.33 A.M. a barge was flying distress signals near the Jenkin Buoy. A westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 11.55 A.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil...