Transmitter and receiver built into the after end-box.. - View image in PDF
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Atlantic 21 rigid inflatables are built at Cowes Base and also undergo survey, maintenance and repair in the base's workshop. (Photo Bob Kennovin). - View image in PDF
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When three people’s lives were in danger, off-duty lifeguards knew what to do
At 6pm on 16 August 2011, three lifeguards finishing their day at Porthcothan, Cornwall, advised everyone to leave...
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Bottom, opposite: Tower lifeboat station moved to Lifeboat Pier earlier this year thanks to funding from the Civil Service Lifeboat Fund, Northwood Golf Club, Pettswood fundraising branch, the Albert Hunt Charitable Trust and legacies from... - View image in PDF
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Above: An injured walker is stretchered down a cliff by the Coastguard cliff rescue to the waiting lifeboat.
This is just an exercise, but in 2001 RNLI lifeboats launched 446 times to people who had fallen from cliffs or... - View image in PDF
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Heather Deane, Deputy Public Relations Officer, is pictured presenting two of the succesful participants with their prizes at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
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Flamborough, Yorkshire.—The No. 1 motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 19th October, as the weather was very bad and two cobles were at sea.
A north gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Walmer, Kent.—At 1 P.M. on the 29th July, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.
A strong...
Dungeness open day, on Sunday July 29, included the blessing of the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat Alice Upjohn by the Right Reverend Peter Chidgey of Lydd. More than 2,000 people visited the station during the day and just over £2,000 was... - View image in PDF
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