Worthing's inshore rescue boat, maliciously damaged during August, suffered a two-feet rip and the repairs cost about £50. The damaged craft was replaced by another within 48 hours..
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Chay Blyth signed copies of THE LIFEBOAT souvenir programme while visiting the exhibition.. - View image in PDF
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THURSDAY, 14th January, 1892.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
The Secretary having reported the death of H...
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It is not often that one sees the director of the RNLI wearing a hard-hat, laying concrete, sporting a sprig of yew tree and then supping a glass of ale - especially when perched on the top of a...
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Enniskillen on Lough Erne was the RNLI's first inland waterway lifeboat station. Lough Derg has swiftly followed Photo: Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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On the 26th Oc- tober, 1859, the schooner Majestic, of Dun- dee, ran for the harbour of Benvick-on- Tweed, it blowing a heavy gale at that time from the N.E. She succeeded in crossing the bar, but drove ashore on Spittal Point. The life-boat...
some recent publications reviewed HEAVY WEATHER SAILING by K. Adlard Coles, revised by Peter Bruce published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £30 ISBN 07136 3431 6 'Heavy Weather Sailing' has long been the standard textbook on the...
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Celebrating the Isle of Man's millennium: Port St Mary prepares for the review of the Sail Training fleet by HM King Olaf of Norn-ay, August4, 1979. Port Erin and Port St Mary lifeboats are seen in centre of picture taken from an SAR... - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 7th Dec., 1854. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read letters from the...
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