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Joint Helicopter-Life-Boat Exercise

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

ON the 1st of September, 1955, the Humber life-boat City of Bradford III carried out an exercise in conjunction with a helicopter of the Royal Air Force station at North Cotes.

In the morning the pilot of the air- craft...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Calendar for 1932

Date: October 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 307

As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service before the public every day of the year, and we hope that...

Category: Advertisement

A R.A.F. Helicopter

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk - At 8 p.m. on 22nd June, 1967, it was learned that a R.A.F. helicopter had crashed about half a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at...

The Skye Passenger Ferry

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Prompt action by lifeboat saves Skye car ferry from rocks Mallaig Scotland South Division The deputy second coxswain of the Mallaig lifeboat has received a letter of thanks after his prompt action when in command of the relief Arun class...

Derek Lionel Scott

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Derek Lionel Scott Former Mumbles coxswain (see right) Derek Scott BEM Derek joined The Mumbles lifeboat crew in 1947 following a disaster when the lifeboat overturned with the loss of all her crew. In 1950 he was made bowman, in 1952 second...

Category: Obituaries

Life-Boat Transporting Carriage

Date: April 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 40

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: April 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 32

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED by THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...

Category: Articles

Centenary Publications and Souvenirs

Date: December 1923

Volume: 25

Issue: 280

" Britain's Life-boats -. The Story of a Century of Heroic Service." By Major A. J. DAWSON, with an Introduction by H.K.H. the PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and a Fore- word by...

Category: Advertisement

Life-Boat Calendar for 1931

Date: September 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 303

Reproduction of the Portrait of a Famous Coxswain.

THE Institution is preparing a Life-boat Calendar for 1931, which will be ready in November. In previous years the calendars have consisted of reproduc- tions of paintings...

Category: Advertisement

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: February 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 151

SOUTHPORT.—In accordance with the wishes of the crew a second Life-boat has been placed at this station. It is a large sailing boat, 42 feet long, and 13£ feet wide, and is constructed, in conformity with the views of a special...

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