A Lifeboatman Wearing The Current Closed Cell Foam Design. - View image in PDF
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In the front row are the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Cardiff and the Mayor and Mayoress of Newport, and immediately behind them Colonel Watts Morgan, M.P., the Chief Constable of Cardiff and Captain P. H.
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Crowds gathered to welcome football legend Jack Charlton and his wife Pat at the opening of the Seahouses (North Sunderland) lifeboat fete on Bank Holiday Monday.. - View image in PDF
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Lerwick's Arun Class Soldian. - View image in PDF
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Back Row, from left to light: — Mr. Henry Fargus, Mr. J. J. Crosfield, Engineer Rear-Admiral Charles Rudd, The Hon. George Colville. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt.. The Worshipful the Mayor of Westminster, Mr. George F. Shee.
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MIDNIGHT SEARCH FOR MISSING ROWING BOATS Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.50 on the night of the 23rd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the owner of several rowing boats on the sea front had repotted that two of his...
Figs 2 and 3 (below): After cabin superstructure, made of aluminium alloy, is also lifted on board by crane and gently lowered into position.. - View image in PDF
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Below. Another little surprise. Mechanic Tommy Cocking changes the engine inlet strainer after Dl John Unwin decides that it is 'blocked' during a towing exercise.. - View image in PDF
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(Below right) Grace Darling, the last Liverpool class to be built tin 19541, and also on display at Chatham, shows the typical shape of a non selfrighting lifeboat of the era.. - View image in PDF
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WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....