Two views of Henry Browne's 'Port-hole' compass: fitted into main bulkhead, it projects fore and aft into cabin and cockpit.. - View image in PDF
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A warming drink after their three-hour service for (I to r): Eric McGonagle, Helmsman Michael Gambrill, Nigel Scammell and Richard Judge. photograph by courtesy of Whitstable Times. - View image in PDF
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On the other side of Mrs. Patton, Coxswain Henry Blogg and Second-Coxswain Balls, of Cromer. (Photograph taken after the Annual Meeting, in London, on 20th April.). - View image in PDF
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I860: The launching of Silloth's first lifeboat, Angela and Hannah, and . . .. - View image in PDF
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On the 10th November the Joseph Anstice, the Life- boat of this station, in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Don, of Jersey, put off to her assistance. A very heavy gale was blowing from the north, and darkness coming on soon...
ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...
Category: Inaugurations
In Portsmouth dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the second Oakley 48-foot 6-inch lifeboat was capsized twice for the benefit of the Press and a large unofficial gathering of naval and civilian dockyard personnel. Here she is shown righting and... - View image in PDF
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On the night of the 18th February the ship Golden Age, of Liverpool, 1,062 tons burthen, stranded on the " Roar Bank," off Littlestone, the wind blowing a fresh gale from the east.
At daylight on the 19th she was...
THE Dundee Life-boat Day this summer was an outstanding event. The Honorary Secretary, Mr. Lindsay, and his Life-boat Day Sub-Committee had j the very generous help of Mr. Kalph (.'. Cowper, the General Manager of the Dundee, Perth and...
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As briefly reported in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 154) a number of life-boat naming ceremonies have taken place.
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire: the 44-foot steel life-boat Arthur & Blanche Harris was named by...
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