damage. He also felt it would be too dangerous to try to close alongside.
Instead, he instructed his crew to prepare a tow and moved the lifeboat, stern-first, towards the casualty's port bow. The occupants could be...
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Lifeboat quiz answers (from page 18) 1—(a) Aith, Shetlands;(b) Lowestoft, Suffolk; (c) St Helier, Jersey; and (d) Valentia, Co. Kerry.
2—The first lifeboat designed to work under sail was the Frances Ann, built at Lowestoft...
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(continued from page 51} shipping industry could well appreciate the financial problems of the RNLI and the hard decisions which it has had to face. The shipping industry knows all about inflation and the desperately serious problems which...
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where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
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Lifeboat Services from page 154 Anstruther, Fife 37ft Oakley: November 12 Appledore, North Devon Atlantic 21: September 2, 9, 12 and 18 Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire D class inflatable: October 25 Arranmore, Co. Donegal 52ft Barnett: September...
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the harbour entrance when she received a message from Barragutt saying that her steering gear had broken down and she was wallowing in the navigation channel between perches 6 and 7. When crossing the first bar the wire connecting the rudder...
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(continued from page 166) breeding ground of many severe squalls and walls of white squalls were whistling across the firth, bringing'snow and stinging spray in their path.
Outside the firth, in the open sea, the south...
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Fox. Vellum service certificates have been presented to Crew Members Christopher E. Fox and David Wainwright.
Western Division On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the...
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Lifeboat Services (from page 281) The divers were landed at Horton at 1441 and the ILB was rehoused and ready for service by 1516.
For this service the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Helmsman...
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from page 230 the trawler. He was landed at Walney Airfield at 0102 and transferred to North Lonsdale Hospital.
The honorary medical adviser and two lifeboat crew members remained aboard the trawler because of the sea...
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