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Category: Advertisement
Endeavour and Eliza Bell
ABEBSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The Mabel Louisa Life-boat was launched, at 2.30 A.M.
on the 29th of April, with much difficulty, the night being very dark, the tide far out, and a very heavy sea breaking on the shore. She proceeded...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th September, 1927.
Sir GODFREY. BAROTG, Bt., in the Chair, Ik-ported the receipt of the following special contributions : — £ s. d.
Civil Service Life- boat Fund (per Mr. H. A. Clark) in...
Category: Committee
Conference: (R to I) Commander David Wilford Rnr Superintendent of Depot Mick Wheeler Assistant Superintendent of Works Depot and Ron Taylor Machine Shop For
Conference: (r. to I.) Commander David Wilford, RNR, superintendent of depot, Mick Wheeler, assistant superintendent of works depot, and Ron Taylor, machine shop foreman.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gale
" The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth." WE are not about to write a sermon, although we have commenced with a text; but the sentiment...
Category: Articles
Lobo
Five saved from foundering yacht When five Danish sailors found themselves in difficulties off the Yorkshire coast with their engine :ailing in appalling weather, the Bridlington lifeboat crew needed all their skill, courage and...
The Great Gale of 23rd November, 1938
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 142 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 20 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1939 - 66,142 The Great Gale of 23rd November,...
Category: Services
First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft
ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...
Category: Services
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Xii—Trials
THROUGHOUT HER BUILDING a lifeboat is under the regular scrutiny of the RNLI's own hull, machinery and electronics overseers; she also receives periodic visits by Lloyd's Register of Shipping surveyors and an exceptionally high...
Category: Articles
Susan Ashley
One of a class of four 41ft lifeboats built for slipway launching.
Watson lifeboats take their class name from their designers, G.L. Watson and Co who were the RNLI's consultant naval architects for many years. Susan... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs