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2017 AT A GLANCE
32,116
people aided
3.32M
preventative
Category: Articles
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
Category: Services
This series of descriptive articles on visits to life-boat stations was begun by Margaret Peter. It is being continued by Stephen Mogridge, who writes about Plymouth in the first of his contributions.
WITH the Navy watching...
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Photograph above was taken during capsize and righting exercise. The crew, clear of the Atlantic 21 but attached to her by lifeline, have pulled the activating cord, gas has been released into buoyancy bag and the boat is righting. Note... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Mr. George F, Shee, the Secretary of the Institution, is standing] behind the Prince.). - View image in PDF
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Blowing up a Storm The RNLI's Storm Force junior club will be known to a much wider audience now, following the naming of an InterCity 125 locomotive 'Storm Force' on Saturday 27 April.
The ceremony was held at...
Category: Articles
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.L.I. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is by virtually everlasting 'Betalite'. It has two range...
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Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
Niger Seed Part of our huge range of bird foods, this tiny, black, oil-rich seed is particularly attractive to goldfinches Wild Flowers for Birds Create your own conservation area with wild flower plants and seeds specially selected to...
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Air cases of the 4I-feet Watson motor life-boat stationed at Shoreham Harbour. This type has 145 of these cases.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs