Celebrating the Isle of Man's millennium: Port St Mary prepares for the review of the Sail Training fleet by HM King Olaf of Norn-ay, August4, 1979. Port Erin and Port St Mary lifeboats are seen in centre of picture taken from an SAR... - View image in PDF
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IT has always been a comforting feeling for yachtsmen to know that if they are in trouble off the coasts of the United Kingdom or Ireland and can make a distress signal by visual means or R/T, a life-boat will come to their assistance...
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Duplex Craft has produced two versions of a 12th scale plastic kit for an Atlantic 21 lifeboat model based on the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic: one version is for a static model (price £24.95), the other for a working,... - View image in PDF
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SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
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Classification of service launches of life-boats for 7970 compared with 7969 Class —Naval vessels —Foreign going merchant vessels —Home trade merchant vessels —Commercial fishing vessels —Powered pleasure craft —Sailing pleasure craft...
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A telephone message was received at 5.40 A.M. on the 30th November, stating that a vessel was making flares to the south of Collieston. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 19 were promptly assembled and the boat proceeded...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1954 - 78,633 Notes of the Quarter THE first of the major flag days of the...
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AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.
Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...
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One of a class of four 41ft lifeboats built for slipway launching.
Watson lifeboats take their class name from their designers, G.L. Watson and Co who were the RNLI's consultant naval architects for many years. Susan... - View image in PDF
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Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Eddy John Porthcawl crew member and shore helper, in December 2001 Captain F Sheridan Galway deputy launching authority, on 4 April Tommy Alcock Former Holyhead coxswain, on 7...
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