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Fig 4: Exhaust Pipe Spring Loaded Valve Designed By the Rnli
Fig. 4: Exhaust pipe spring loaded valve designed by the RNLI..
Category: Drawings
A Boat
Search through surf BLYTH LIFEBOAT, the 46' 9" Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) had launched on exercise on Monday, August 8, and was heading for the harbour mouth when, at 1007, a call was received from HM Coastguard...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...
Category: Articles
Digital Donations
In these difficult economic times, some traditional ways of giving have seen a decline. We have, however, seen a very welcome 20% year-on-year growth in online donations.
Donating to charities online is becoming more...
Category: Articles
Keys to the Door
Lottery winners Mr and Mrs Dilley of Redditch were presented with the keys to their new Volvo 440 Li, first prize in the 56th National Lottery, at the Boat and Caravan Show, Birmingham on 14 February.
The Dilleys (above... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Donald
Exmouth, Devon. At 9.57 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police at Dawlish that a motor boat was making distress signals two miles off Dawlish.
At...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.
A strong gale was blowing...
Category: Services
Marie
At 7.15 A.M. on the 6th April a schooner was seen making for the harbour entrance the wind then being south with a heavy sea on the bar, and a quarter of an hour later when the vessel had just got inside the river, the wind suddenly...
Judging taking Place in the Birmingham Post's Children's Poster Design Competition, Organised In Association With the R.N.L.I, and the British Poster Advertising Association. Entrants, from All Parts
Judgingtaking placein The Birmingham Post's children's poster design competition, organised in association with the R.N.L.I, and the British Poster Advertising Association. Entrants, from all parts of the Midlands, were asked to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Japanese Tanker
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...