PAGe tItLe RescUe FIVe ALIVe two miles from land, a group of kayakers was at the mercy of gale force offshore winds. How could they summon help and how long could they stay afloat? mairéad Dwane reports tHe DetAIL insHORe LiFeBOat B-789...
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THE Institution is again issuing in the autumn a life-boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...
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Logwatch, a new electronic navigational instrument made by the marine equipment division of R. P. Jeffers and Company, has recently been evaluated by the RNLI design department. It is an electronic digital log with an integral chronometer...
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Plays the melody of "Cherished" (l/ a j/uHt a fju'li-s/iwi yij i-f ti learning 2 2 - ( . . i r . t i gold the raised-relief bo s that • isic lm I with an handles are lavishly accented with hand-applied bands of precious...
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Earls Court, London, January 6 to 16 A SHOP WINDOW FOR THE WORK OF THE RNLIA YEAR OF NATIONAL CELEBRATION for the 25 years of Her Majesty The Queen's reign began for lifeboat supporters in January at the 1977 International Boat Show in...
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To PATRICK SLINKY, on his retirement, after serving for 28J years as coxswain and 11 years as second coxswain of the Bally- cotton life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To MICHAEL BONOGHUE, on...
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THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in Ireland and Wales, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in touch...
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DURING 1937 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 21 British vessels.
Four of these services were by France, 2 by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, 1 by Norway and 15 by the United...
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Appointments Fred Breck - Stromness lifeboat station Coxswain Mark Criddle -Torbay lifeboat station Coxswain Rob Fossett - Lyme Regis lifeboat station Deputy Launching Authority Dr George Knox - Newhaven lifeboat station Lifeboat Medical...
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IP a motor boat could speak, the Beaumaris motor Life - boat, which should reach her station shortly after this article is in print, would be able to make a boast which few of her sister boats could equal, and which should prove a source of...
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