As the return of the local cobles from the fishing- grounds on the 22nd January was at- tended with considerable risk, due to the strong E.S.E. gale which had sud- denly arisen, the Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. to assist them. The...
The Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 9.15 A.M. on the 24th February to the assistance of the cobles Marguerite and Isabel and Rita, which were overtaken by rough weather when to the north of the Brig. The E.S.E. wind caused the sea...
At 11.30 A.M. on the 29th December the local motor fishing boats Success, Venus, Pilot Me and Galilee were expected home. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, with rain showers and fog, and a strong sea, coming with the flood tide, was...
LIFEMASTER Lffe/ackets MANUFACTURED TO BRITISH STANDARD 3595 VACUUM REFLEX L'.
Special Designs supplied to R.N.L.I.
and constructional engineering concerns • VARIETY OF DESIGNS INCLUDES INHERENT, ORAL...
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On March 20 in a strong west-south-westerly breeze, Newhaven's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table went to the help of the barge Dunord which, on passage from Lowestoft to Poole, was aground one mile west ofBeachy Head... - View image in PDF
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Over 100 horses and riders took part in a sponsored ride organised by the Wimborne and District Riding Club. The ride was over a 15-mile course starting from the ancient monument of Badbury Rings. Each rider to complete the course was... - View image in PDF
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Construction b*gan last December1 on the first of a. new type of motor life-bo and three mere of the type have been laid down since. They are a development of tfl powerful Watson cabin type af life-boat. 46 feet long and driven by two 40...
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LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.
Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...
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THE Institution is again issuing a Life- boat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it hopes that many...
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A Suggestion to Stations.
WE should like to call the attention of Station Branches to an arrangement which has recently been made at Blyth, Northumberland. There are two Honorary Secretaries at this Station, but in order...
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