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Life-Boat Tractors for the Antarctic

Date: May 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 284

IN 1920 the Institution first experi- mented with a motor caterpillar tractor to be used in place of horses for launch- ing Life-boats on flat sandy beaches.

There are now eleven on the coast.

The type...

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News from the Branches. 1st August to the 31st October, 1937

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Greater London.

Life-boat stand at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. (A special report will appear in the next issue.) BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman,...

Category: Branches

"Storm on the Waters"

Date: June 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 342

Storm on the Waters - is the story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939-45. The full story cannot be told in the compass of a small book, but if Mr. Vince has had to omit much that we should like to see included, he has given us a...

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Bisco 9

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 1.10 in the morning on the 17th of Septem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported a radio message from the tug Turmoil that the steamer Bisco 9, which she was tow- ing, had parted her tow and was drift- ing....

Mercantile Credit

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

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Koo-She

Date: Autumn 1990

Volume: 52

Issue: 514

Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...

Today's Lifeboatmen

Date: Autumn 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 518

Today's lifeboatmen Coxswain Michael Grant of Selsey joined the crew in 1960 and served as second coxswain from 1972 to 1978, becoming the station's full-time coxswain on 1 November 1978.

He was awarded the Thanks...

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Mercury Direct

Date: Summer 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 565

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Great Rail Journeys

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

Alpine Tour BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialists on this fabulous 15-day holiday through the Alps. A friendly and professional Tour Manager accompanies all departures so sit back, relax and enjoy the...

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Peter Christian

Date: Autumn 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 582

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