Plymouth's 52' Barnett class lifeboat, Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse (left), has recently been replaced by a 44' Waveney steel self-righting lifeboat, Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II: she is this issue's cover picture.... - View image in PDF
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APPENDICITIS PATIENT Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 10.20 p.m.
on 2 ist July, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that an appendicitis patient was in urgent need of an operation.
The air ambulance...
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LiFeBoAt LotterY Lifeboat Lottery Autumn winner Kirsten Ferguson said during her visit to Anstruther lifeboat station: ‘My husband and I are not sailors but I grew up in Denmark and recognise how important the sea is. You hope you will never...
Category: Articles
The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, concludes his report from the 1995 International Lifeboat Conference with a look at the development of new lifeboats around the world and initiatives to improve safety at sea There...
Category: Meetings
IT is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, G.O.B., which took place, at the age of 83, at Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, on Wednesday, Sep- tember 18th.
Sir Richard Hamilton...
Category: Obituaries
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PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by...
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ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S.
Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to the east of Beachy Head. During the next ten days a number of salvage boats went out to her, and at 4.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of May Coxswain...
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