Aberystwyth: On Saturday August 20, a fine, warm day after a night of violent thunder storms, Aberystwyth's new Mk IV Zodiac D class inflatable, twin-engined lifeboat was handed over and a service of dedication was held for the... - View image in PDF
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The Sumner Lifeboat Institution, New Zealand, operates an ex-RNLI 10.9m Liverpool class lifeboat, Rescue III, and a fast jet inshore boat. Aid II. When a call-out comes, both lifeboats, a control tower and a mobile base in a Landrover are... - View image in PDF
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VHP transmitter/receivers are now very compact and can be fitted in boats as small as the RNLI's D class inflatables. This photograph of the first Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable clearly shows the aerial mounted on the mast aft - as high as... - View image in PDF
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The morning of 1 June was sunny and calm – the perfect day for a sightseeing trip around Coquet Island bird reserve.
Amble’s lifeboats, the Mersey class The Four Boys and D class Rosemary Palmer, were called out at 11am to...
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During a visit to Islay on July, HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, with Coxswain Alistair Campbell on the flying bridge, brings in the 50ft Thames class lifeboat Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit. photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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(Above) Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the RNLI Medina class lifeboat, visited the liner ss Canberra in Southampton Docks last July, taking out Commodore F. B.
Woolley, Deputy Captain Ian Gibb and other P and O... - View image in PDF
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Photographs are notorious for reducing the apparent size of a wave - but one glance at that breaker, pictured between Teesmouth's Tyne class and the 97,000 tonne casualty, shows how truly horrendous the conditions were on 28... - View image in PDF
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Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: May 3 Abersoch, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: April 10, 11 and May 13 Aberystwyth, Dyfed Relief D class inflatable: April 8 and May 4 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 42ft Beach: March 28 D class inflatable: March 28 Amble,...
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This view of the Cornish sunrise was taken from Penlee’s Severn class lifeboat Ivan Ellen on 12 October 2008. The crew were returning to shore with a 15m fishing vessel in tow. The Sowenna had suffered steering failure 5 miles south of her...
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The 37ft Oakley, designed by R. A. Oakley, the Institution's surveyor of lifeboats, was the first modern lifeboat with a self-righting capability, and the first boat of the class to be built, 3. G.
Graves of Sheffield,... - View image in PDF
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