After her naming and a service of dedication on Sunday July 19, New Brighton's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat is towed across the beach ready for launching. She is one of the Atlantics generously provided by Fred Olsen Lines... - View image in PDF
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at the annual meeting of the R. N.L.I.
on 18th May, Mr. Derek Scott, of Mumbles, who holds the B.E.M., the Institution's silver medal and bar and the bronze medal, belongs to the new generation of life-boatmen. He was...
Category: Articles
In all respects ready for sea I was interested to read the article on survey and maintenance of the offshore fleet in the autumn edition of THE LIFEBOAT. Certainly the work involved in the various surveys is enormous, and it is useful to...
Category: Correspondence
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother named the new Thurso life-boat—-a 48-foot 6-inch Solent class boat—on llth August, by the Hotel Quay, Scrabster Harbour.
Named The Three Sisters, she was paid for by an anonymous...
Category: Inaugurations
Taken outside Life-boat House, Charing Cross Road, London.
Left to right: Coxswain Cross (Humber), Miss Stcphenson and Mrs. Slanton (Boulmer), Coxswain Fleming (Gorleston). and Coxswain Dobson (Donna Nook). In the... - View image in PDF
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Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
Thank you, Kinghorn I am writing to express my thanks to the Kinghorn D class inflatable lifeboat crew and the RNLI who over the years have made it possible for me to sail my sailboard off Kinghorn secure in the knowledge that if I do have a...
Category: Correspondence
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
September Meeting.
Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 11 A.M. on the...
Category: Services
Despite injury FAIRLIGHT COASTGUARD informed the Hastings deputy launching authority at 1120 on December 23, 1974, that there had been an explosion on board the Argentinian warship Candida de Lasala and medical help was needed. Maroons were...
RNLB Shoreline has been on station at Arbroath for just over three years, having previously served at Blyth. This 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat was paid for from funds raised by Shoreline members in 1977/78 and, since her arrival at... - View image in PDF
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