(right) the champagne breaks on the bow of 33ft Brede lifeboat RNLB Caroline Finch. photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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IN the last issue of The Life-boat a review was published of Modern Motor Life-boa's of the Institution, by Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A., who has been the Institution's con- sulting naval architect for the past twenty-eight...
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READER OFFERS Lifeboats Every booking benefits the RNLI OCEAN CRUISES 2008-2010 DEPARTING FROM THE UK - NO FLYING! Our ship the MV Van Gogh has become a firm favourite with UK passengers and is often referred to as ‘the happiest ship afloat’...
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A harbour fete at the little Northumbrian coastal village of Craster last July raised £.1,531 for the lifeboat service. It was opened with charm and wit by Joyce Grenfell who also sang snatches of her songs, everyone joining in... - View image in PDF
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Standing by in Hurricane HAVING RECEIVED information from the Coastguard at 0618 on Thursday, December 6, 1973, that the trawler Navena was ashore on the rocks north of Copinsay Light, the Kirkwall(Orkneys) honorary secretary asked for...
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...
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AT the annual meeting of the committee of this Fund, held on the 19th January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, it was reported by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, that during...
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The steamer Ypapanti aground on a bank near the Sunk lightvessel on 17th November 1966. Coxswain Frank Bloom, of the Walton life-boat, was awarded a bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of 11 men from her.. - View image in PDF
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DEC. 7TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A steamer had gone ashore, but declined help as she hoped to refloat unaided as the tide rose. - Rewards, £26 9s. 6d..
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