By GEORGE F. SHEE, Secretary of the Institution.
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IN the course of many years' experience of the organization of efforts on behalf of the Life-boat Cause I have met again and again Honorary...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—1st November, 1937. An aeroplane appeared to have come down in the Tay, but after touching the water it rose again and went on.—Rewards, £6 12s..
given : JANUARY 2ND. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £21 19s. 6d..
T/ie following is an abbreviated version of a graphic account of a fine service to a British vessel which appears in De Reddingboot, the journal of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society, for last June. The three Life-boats engaged...
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(Top) 12-009 indicates a 12m long lifeboat (and therefore a Mersey), the leading zero after the dash indicates aluminium or steel (aluminium in the case of Merseysi and the W shows that she is the ninth of the class to be built.. - View image in PDF
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Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
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EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...
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