• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
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Life-boat stand at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. (A special report will appear in the next issue.) BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman,...
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'We have a call out about every eight or nine days and we've been out in some terrible conditions. The worst I can remember was when we were called to a ship that had tipped over because the cargo it was carrying had shifted in the...
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Station volunteers foresaw disaster when seven adventurous children met the elements
Midday on 26 May was cold and blustery and Clogher Head Lifeboat Operations Manager Declan Levins was at the...
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SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
Arun at sea for 14 hours on three services to yachts in trouble Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell was at sea for almost 14 hours in one 25-hour period when she received three separate calls from yachts in trouble on 9...
PERHAPS Mr. Plimsoll, in the interest of Saving Life at Sea, has done no more useful thing than pressing on the atten- tion of Parliament the necessity for addi- tional precautions and legal requirements to prevent the shifting of grain and...
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Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower This was the first of the Thames E class lifeboats to be named.
The money for the boat was raised by The Lifeboat Fund, which has been raising money for the RNLI for 140 years... - View image in PDF
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IN consequence of more than one of the lifeboats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION having upset and broken adrift when in tow, through being to«red without any one on board to steer them, the following Instructions have been...
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