The fill/owing information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service in which it towed in the three Royal Nary inshore... - View image in PDF
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With a combined total of more than 10,000 miles waterproof boots. to explore, our coastal paths are some of the most epic walking routes in the world. Alex Ellis-Roswell, almost 8 months into his 2-year coastal walk that will...
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The House at Bamburg—Where Grace Darling Died. - View image in PDF
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. •—• At 11.10 A.M. on the 20th August the motor lifeboat Herbert Joy II was launched, as two cobles were at sea, and a strong N.W. breeze had got up, with a rough sea. Just as the life-boat was moving off a message was...
Haylmg Island's new lifeboat station will soon need a change of launching system for the Atlantic as a cusp of sand migrates northwards depositing shingle on the slipway.. - View image in PDF
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Grace Darling, alias Barbara Leverett, and her father, alias Herbert Argent, row purposefully through Steeple Bumpstead Carnival, held last May; the RNLI souvenir stand took £100 that day. In August the same float was again to be seen... - View image in PDF
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION carried out at Lowestoft in 1892 a series of competitive trials and tests with, sailing Life-boats the details of which were subsequently published. The trials with the various types of pulling Life-boats...
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AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
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The Electric Winch Used For Hauling Up and Housing Motor Life-Boats. - View image in PDF
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Fig. 4 (below): Plating of the first of the two prototype fast slipway lifeboats is complete and the hull has been turned through 180 degrees so that it is now right way up. A welder is at work attaching deck fittings to the deck stringer... - View image in PDF
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