SEPTEMBER 1982 Extracts from the log of Acting Motor Mechanic ALEC MOORE of the delivery trip of the 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Herbert Leigh at the end of her time as a station boat; she is now in the relief fleet. For the voyage the other...
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By the time this issue of theLifeboat reaches you, coastal hovercraft trials will have been completed as part of the RNLI's hovercraft pilot scheme.
Following successful results from initial trials at Poole, the 7.6m...
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ILB launches on service during the months June, July and August, 1973 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire July 8.
Aberdovey, Merionethshire June 24, July 13, 21, August 3 (twice), 10, 11, 13 (twice) and 15.
Abersoch,...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow,...
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Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire August 15th.
June 30th, July 4th and 9th.Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down...
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The Lifeboat Tyne class 47-026 Garstde The Crew Vellum Coxswain Malcolm Gray for his 'tenacity, determination and seamanship... Any miscalculation could have resulted in the lifeboat being beached or grounded on the rocks or even...
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By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
A VISITOR who called at Life-boat House this autumn made the remark that he never opened a newspaper without seeing in it something about the Life- boat Service....
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At 4.30 A.M. on the 21st February the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched, signals having been fired by the Swin Middle, Light-vessel. The morning was bitterly cold; a very strong wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was very rough....
Cox- swain Kelly of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 1 on the 23rd March saw a schooner miss stays and get into a dangerous position near the rocks beneath the lime kilns at Port St. Mary.
A strong southerly breeze was...
Cullercoats, and Tynemoutb, North- umberland.—On the same morning, February 26th, 1947, the Greek steamer Zephyros, of Argostoli, a vessel of 4,000 tons, bound, in ballast, from Rouen to the Tyne, was driven ashore during a blizzard at...