JANUARY 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. As soon as the Eileena had been brought in the coxswain reported it to the naval control, which at once asked him to go out again to the four T.I.D. tugs 111, 112, 113 and 115. The previous night,...
VERY CLOSE TO THE SEA are people of the Isle of Man. Set in the Irish Sea almost equidistant between England and Ireland, with Scotland to the north and Wales to the south, not only is the island itself dependent on sea trade but is lies...
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Contents Swanage Centenary 41 Lifeboat Services 42 Volume XLIV Annual Awards 1974 46 4 JO Twelfth International Lifeboat Conference by Patrick Howarth 48 Scottish Lifeboat Council Annual General Meeting 49 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H....
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Margate, Kent. At 4.26 on the after- noon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Whiteness. There was a moderate north-westerly wind with a rough sea....
NEWSPOINT Few can complain at the amount of exposure the Institution has received on television recently.
Hardly had the Salcombe- Dased documentary left our TV screens than BBC's 'Blue Peter' took up the...
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Frank and Rose Ide at Poole lifeboat station with their two younger sons, John (r), on leave from the Navy after serving with the South Atlantic Task Force in HMS Glamorgan, and Bob (I), member of Poole lifeboat crew. Frank and Rose's... - View image in PDF
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BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the evening of the 4th April, 1881, informa- tion was brought from the Coastguard Station that the Bell Buoy, a vessel which is placed about two miles off the shore to warn vessels off the Stullmartin Reef, had...
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Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
NO PEACE FOR NEWLY WEDS
‘Just another day being married to an RNLI coxswain,’ says newly-wed Trina Sawyer, whose big day with Eastbourne lifeboat Coxswain...
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Where the money goes... New production Trent and Severn class lifeboats are now entering service, each costing more than £1m . With speeds of up to 25 knots they are reducing the response times wherever they are stationed. The prototype... - View image in PDF
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WE believe that it will be both interesting and instructive to the readers of the Life- Boat Journal generally to have a brief account of the origin, objects, and functions of the Trinity House, London, which is one of the most ancient and...
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