D class inflatable braves Force 10 and total darknessPaul Gilson, the helmsman of Southend-on-Sea's D class inflatable lifeboat has been awarded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum following a service on the night of 20/21...
IN No. 10 of this Journal we described and eulogized this, as we believe, invaluable boat, invented by the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, of Fareham, and in our 23rd Number we stated that we should not cease to draw the attention of our readers to its...
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It was a cold and blustery August bank holiday when the annual life-boat flag day was held in Rhyl this year. A further handicap was the lateness of the bank holiday - fewer people were in the town. The outlook for fund raising was poor,...
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Photograph above was taken during capsize and righting exercise. The crew, clear of the Atlantic 21 but attached to her by lifeline, have pulled the activating cord, gas has been released into buoyancy bag and the boat is righting. Note... - View image in PDF
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Not long after the lifeboat had returned, at 1815. a message came to Torbay station honorary secretary from Brixham Coastguard that something was amiss in mid channel. Coxswain Curnow and Motor Mechanic Stephen Bower were alerted and at 1914...
FOR the sixth year running the Institu- tion has received from a lady in Hamp- stead the gift of a year's collection of halfpennies. It numbers 216, or nine shillings..
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High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...
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Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
Dungeness and Hythe, Kent.—On the 8th October, the barge Shamrock, of London, was...
Category: Services
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...
The chief engineer of one of the steamers of the Holt Line who regularly brings to the office of the Institution's Port of Liverpool Branch a life-boat collecting box to be emptied, called a short time ago, full of apologies, because the...
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