On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
Members of 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., at work on the track at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which leads to the life-boat station and (below) the finished track which took the squadron from 1st to 13th July, 1963, to... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 12TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
During an air battle an enemy aeroplane had crashed three miles off, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d.
Official visits The RNLI was host to several visitors in the early part of 1990, each with a different interest in the Institution and its work.
On 24 January Patrick McLoughlin MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
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WE have pleasure in introducing to our readers the following extracts from a beautiful poem entitled " The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound," by the well-known Author of " Ruins of Many Lands," " Pleasure,"...
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The ability of a modern lifeboat to self-right after a capsize is a valuable safety feature, but just how is this achieved? Mike Floyd sets out to explain the principles behind a modern self-righting lifeboat without recourse to diagrams or...
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LONG before the war ended the Institution had made plans to rebuild a great part of its fleet. It lost six boats, destroyed by the enemy, and more serious even than this loss were the delays. In the last four years of the war the building of...
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(Below) Ex-Coxswain Robert 'Bobbie' Brunton retired in 1976 after 29 years as a member of Tynemouth lifeboat crew; he was second coxswain from 1953 to 1963, coxswain from 1963 to 1976. At TynemoutH's annual Christmas dinner the... - View image in PDF
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