Following a recent visit to the West Country, Georgette Purches, assistant public relations officer for the RNLI, explains the organisation behind the RAF and Royal Navy helicopter rescue services. She was also in the right place at the...
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Lord Albemarle Speaking at The Inaugural Ceremony of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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'Cover is normally on the lines of all damage to or loss of the craft. - View image in PDF
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The Nora Royds, built in 1887, which replaced the ill-fated Laura Janet at Lytham.. - View image in PDF
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One of the last launches of John and Henrietta, in 1916, assisted by the army.. - View image in PDF
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Exercising with a helicopter from RAF Valley, the mountains of North Wales in the background.. - View image in PDF
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(Above). The unpainled wheelhouse module (also in FRC) is craned into position on the hull.. - View image in PDF
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The Government Seaplane No. 11, whilst flying from Sheerness to Harwich on the 1st April dropped into the sea when about four miles W.S.W. of Clacfcon. Instructions were given for the Life-boat Albert Edward to proceed to her assistance, and...
AN article was published in the last number of The Life-boat (Autumn, 1950) on the great danger of rubber dinghies, and a list was given of life-boats launched to their help in the summer of 1950. There were ten launches and eighteen lives...
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The new inshore lifeboat IB 1 (below) will be a development of the existing D class but will use the latest advances in material and equipment technology.. - View image in PDF
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