all three 70ft Clyde class (right) were withdrawn from service during the summer of 1988. The Clydes will be sold out of service and two of the four McLachlans will be retained for use as boarding boats at Number (Clyde photo courtesy... - View image in PDF
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(below) Miss Sylvia Clarke names the relief fleet D class lifeboat Sea Ranger under the watchful eye of Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing.. - View image in PDF
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The Mersey class Frank and Lena Clifford of Stourbridge returns to New Quay pier on the day of her naming ceremony with Mr and Mrs Grice aboard, together with the coxswain Winston Evans and mechanic Mervyn Thomas. Photo Carol... - View image in PDF
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The Mersey class Freddie Cooper waits on the beach at Aldeburgh during her official naming ceremony on 31 May 1994.. - View image in PDF
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FIRST A CORRECTION: In part VIII of this article an error appeared in the size given for the keel bolts. The ballast keel of the Rother is in fact fixed with 12mm bolts.
The photographs on this page show work progressing on...
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(Right) The 52ft Arun lifeboat Sir William Arnold, second in her class, was sen! to St Peter Port in 1973.. - View image in PDF
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Mrs Florence Ashingdon watches her solicitor William Nigh christen Gordon England after she had officially named the D class inflatable.. - View image in PDF
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One of the new 17ft 6in twin-engined C class inflatable lifeboats preparing to go afloat after her official handing over at Criccieth last May. A report of the ceremony appeared on page 57 of the summer 1984 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. photograph... - View image in PDF
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All over the country, often far from the sea, members of a special RNLI team are saving young lives.
They are not launching lifeboats or plunging into rough water - but they need to be brave enough to stand up in front of a... - View image in PDF
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(Lett) Blyth's D class inflatable was vandalised on 1 August 1989 when the boathouse was entered illegally.
Station mechanic John Scott is pictured in front of the damaged lifeboat holding the knife used to puncture the... - View image in PDF
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