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Sheerness Trent named by HRH The Duke of Kent KG Even the dark clouds and splatters of rain decided to clear and let the sunshine smile on the new Trent class lifeboat at her naming ceremony on Wednesday 11 September.
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1004 the Atlantic 21 ILB Blue Peter II launched on service with David Jones as helmsman and John Askew and Simon Dubberley as crew; the honorary medical adviser, Dr Jack Dubberley, also embarked.
The sky was overcast with a...
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[The Yachting Monthly of March 1952 published an account by Mr.
D. K. Rae of a trip in his W-feet auxiliary yacht Sirius. It started from the Crouch, but the Sirius grounded on the Buxey Sand off Clacton. The crew laid out...
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to ttem, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Second Coxswain Keith Bower, Torbay: 'When we got down off the shore a little bit we "tacked", putting the wind first on one bow and then on the other'.. - View image in PDF
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Thursday, the 5th day of March, 1903, His Grace the DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G., in the Chair, the...
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November 1995 Mrs Maggie May (Pinnie) Howells MBE, a founder member of Tenby ladies' lifeboat guild. In 1939 she was chairman of the guild and later president from 1975 to 1994. Mrs Howells was awarded a statuette in 1987 and received a...
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JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
DURING 1936 the coastguard took action in the case of 806 vessels or aircraft reported to be in distress, in difficulties, or overdue off the coast of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The rocket life-saving apparatus com...
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