Mr. Wright Griggs, of Hythe, Kent, who died on 18th September last, at the age of sixty-nine, was a member of a family whose name is very familiar in the history of the Hythe Life-boat Station. He went to sea as a boy, and then as a young...
Category: Obituaries
Two fathers stranded at sea were about to give up hope of seeing their children again after a jetskiing trip went horribly wrong ...
Battered by huge waves after their watercraft sank and now...
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Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat.
H.R.H. THE DUKE of KENT, KG., on 27th June named the motor life-boat at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. This is the ninth motor life-boat which he has named. The other eight have...
Category: Inaugurations
Brighton's relief Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat on exercise off Brighton Marina. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Crew Member Alan J. Young. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brighton's Atlantic 21 lifeboat on exercise in heavy seas. The photograph was taken by Alan Young, helmsman of the lifeboat for the service described below.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue against the clock Drifting closer to a rocky shore minute by minute, the yacht Headstrong needed help to survive the night. But would the Plymouth lifeboat reach them in time?Hampered by fishing gear around her propeller, Headstrong...
Category: Services
COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATIONAL AIDS OF A MODERN LIFEBOAT by Lieutenant Ernest Gough, RN STAFF OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS), RNLISEEING AN OFFSHORE LIFEBOAT for the first time, you may wonder why she has so many antennae and gadgets sprouting...
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The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
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The History of the Rhyl Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This is the second edition of Jeff Morris's account of the lifeboats and services in this wellknown North Wales resort.
As usual the...
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 130 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 131 TRIBUTE TO LIFE-BOAT DESIGNER 133 THE WRECK OF THE ANZIO I 134 CREW THROWN OUT OF IRB 136 AWARD FOR SIXTEEN YEAR OLD BOY 138 SIDELIGHTS ON STATIONS AND PLACES 139 THIRTY-FIFTH CIVIL SERVICE...
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