Non-members of the YLA are liable to capsize at sea. So are members of the YLA. But at least, when they go over, YLA members have the consolation of knowing they can await rescue by the R.N.L.I, with a clear... - View image in PDF
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The Anstruther lifeboat, The Doctors, is a 37-foot Oakley.. - View image in PDF
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Sitting from left to right are: Sir Ernest Glover, Bt. (President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom), Lord Waldegrave, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution, and Mr. Joseph Conrad. - View image in PDF
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and (below) off Padstow (photograph by courtesy of John Watts, Cornerways Studio).. - View image in PDF
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An honorary Record of Thanks was presented to The Boys' Brigade in recognition of all their support of the RNLI, including their ambitious fundraising appeal for the millennium year; Lifeboats for 2000. Collecting the award was David... - View image in PDF
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baffles of integral water ballast tanks. Hole of transom scoop can be seen on port side. (Right) Flexible neoprene pipes from manifold (inboard of transom) lead port and starboard to water ballast tanks and forward, on port side of... - View image in PDF
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We're not asking you to risk your life in Force 9 gales. Or to be on call, day and night. Or even to devote time to training. We are asking for something equally important, though: put pen to paper, below, and take out a Lifeboats...
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BY the death on 18th August, at the age of 68, of Coxswain Thomas Read, of Ramsgate, the Institution has lost one of its most distinguished coxswains.
Coxswain Read was appointed second 'coxswain about 1915, when the...
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Swanage's Mersey class Robert Charles Brown, the lifeboat involved in a long service to a yacht off St Catherine's Point which led to Coxswain Chris Haw's Thanks on Vellum.. - View image in PDF
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