The sun goes to Ray's head Mike Green and his son Ray have been lifelong supporters of the RNLI from their Hounslow home, but when Mike and his family decided to up-sticks and make their home aboard their yacht, for a dream-of-a-lifetime... - View image in PDF
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Actor Daniel Craig has publicly lent his support to the RNLI following a visit to Ramsgate lifeboat station (pictured centre with the crew). Photo: © Greg Williams. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 8TH - TYNEMOUTH , NORTHUMBERLAND. The life-boat rescued twenty-two people from the Norwegian motor ship Oslo Fjord from which she had previously rescued seventeen. For details see December 1st.
APRIL 1ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About six o’clock in the morning the officer of the watch of H.M.S. Forte III telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Pendennis Castle Point. The tide was low, with a strong southeast wind...
Steel is the material chosen for the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat which is designed to be launched from and recovered and hauled up coastal slipsways. An all-welded steel structure is effectively monolithic, a weld in steel developing the full... - View image in PDF
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The 1972-1973 national project of the Co-operative Women's Guild is an appeal to raise £6,000 for the purchase of two ILBs for the R.N.L.I. Last year members of the guild visited the London headquarters of the R.N.L.I. and are here... - View image in PDF
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ON 24th November the ketch Ceres, of Bude, Cornwall, left Swansea for Bude with a cargo of eighty tons of slag.
Her crew was a skipper and a mate.
They intended to go over Bideford Bar for the night, but...
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Bottom:The Anne Allen, Skegness lifeboat from 1932–53 including the War years. - View image in PDF
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THE Constantine medal of the Man- chester Association of Engineers has been awarded to Mr. R. A. Oakley, Sur- veyor of Life-boats, for the best paper to be presented to the Association dur- ing the session 1959-60. Mr. Oakley read a paper...
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While the Life- boat Elliot Galer was out for her quarterly exercise, during a strong S.E. wind and rough sea on the 25th September, a small boat was sighted with four men in her. She was evi- dently in distress, and the Life-boat bore down...