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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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,...
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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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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....
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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 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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