Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...
The following figures show the general form,, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
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WE print below a list of the results of the Life-boat Days which have been held since the last list was published in the August number of The Life-Boat. Yeovil Comments on the results of this year's Special Efforts will be found in "...
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HARWICH.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Lifeboat in tow, went out on the morning of the 6th January, in a fresh gale from the N.E., snow squalls and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the Cork...
Aberystwyth, and New Quay, Cardigan- shire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the Outward Bound Sea School's ketch Golden Valley left Aberystwyth for New Quay, towing the fifty-feet fishing boat Cornelia, of New Quay. At...
O There cannot be many works of fiction based on the lifeboat service and of these few are likely to ring true to the men who man the boats. Although the majority of people would say that they are well acquainted with the RNLI, its lifeboats...
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• It is well for a country that she should number among her sons and daughters adventurous and courageous individualists—where, for instance, would the lifeboat service be without them? Such a man was Augustine Courtauld whose biography. The...
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ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S.
Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to the east of Beachy Head. During the next ten days a number of salvage boats went out to her, and at 4.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of May Coxswain...
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Life-boat stand at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. (A special report will appear in the next issue.) BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman,...
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Sport diver and RNLI supporter Brian Minehane gets bitten by the maritime archaeology bug thanks to a sunken antique lifeboat …
I am an Irishman from Dublin, born in Kent, England, and who now...
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