Scarborough lifeboat, the 37' Oakley J. G. Graves of Sheffield, launched at 1945 on September 21, 1976, with a pump and three firemen on board, to help trawler Anmara (with crew of three) under tow of trawler Carolanne and in danger of... - View image in PDF
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Six taken off ON A NIGHT of worsening weather, Clyde Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Islay lifeboat station at 2213 on Sunday September 4, 1983, that the 34ft yacht Hydrovane, on charter, was in trouble in the Sound of Jura.<...
Signalman Edward Touzel of the Jersey Station Who Was Appointed In 1889 and Retired In 1929 He Is Shown Wearing French and English Life-Saving Awards. - View image in PDF
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Captain William Sinclair, coxswain of the Kirkwall lifeboat, with the station's new Arun Mickie Salvesen. - View image in PDF
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(Top) The Youth Promotion display extolls the virtues of joining Storm Force and becoming involved at school, while (above) the sales stall is as busy as usual.. - View image in PDF
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MAY 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At eight in the evening of the 9th a man went out in his small motor boat Flora MacDonald, with his father-in-law. At 11.50 his wife reported that the boat had not returned.
At 12.45 next...
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In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 229, 235 and 242, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May, 1970, inclusive: Aberdeen ...
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A new experimental life-boat with a glass-reinforced plastic hull and deck— she is 40-foot long-was on 15th January, 1969, on view tothe press at Newhaven, Sussex. Here the boat, which has a maximum speed of 19 knots and cruising speed of 17... - View image in PDF
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Modern Motor Life-boats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
By ]. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A. (Blackie & Sons, Ltd. 5s. net.) THE author of this book is the head of the famous Clyde firm of yacht...
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