Above: Whitby's restored pulling and sailing lifeboat, Robert & Ellen Robson, is launched from an original carnage for the first time in over 40 years to great applause from the large gathered crowd.. - View image in PDF
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Denis Twomey, RNLI area organiser for the South West, and 74 students from Bristol University Air Squadron recently managed to pull a 65 tonne Hercules aircraft a mile along runway 24 at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
The... - View image in PDF
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John and Naomi Beattie, the last of Aberystwyth's five pulling and sailing lifeboats, on her way along the town front, drawn by willing helpers. She was on station from 1906 to 1932.. - View image in PDF
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JULY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 1 A.M. the coastguard telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a vessel was ashore at Robin Hood’s Bay, and the No. 1 motor lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 1.30 A.M. The weather...
The little tin lifeboat Grace Darling.. - View image in PDF
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Grosvenor Road Sea Anglers pulling their weight.. - View image in PDF
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The Motor Life-boat Herbert Joy II. was taken out for the usual quarterly exer- cise at low water on the morning of 22nd March. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing with a rough sea. While she was out the weather became worse, and as it was...
36-Foot Motor Self-Bailing Self-Righting Life-Boat US Coast Guard. - View image in PDF
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Three local fishing cobles, Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling, went out crabbing on the morning of the 10th February. Shortly afterwards the sea became rough and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched to their help. A...
Three Attempts of the Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Have Failed The Tide Is Making and Rising Over The Wreck The Two Men on the Barge Have Climbed To The Foot of the Topmast. - View image in PDF
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