Bude's new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat in the surf close to shore during a training exercise shortly after her arrival on station.
The Evans/Avon EA 16 lifeboat has a 40hp outboard engine and a top speed of 20... - View image in PDF
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BRISTOW HELICOPTERS have given to Aberdeen's 54' Arun BP Forties an AM VHP (air band) Pye Westminster radio, which allows direct communication between lifeboat and aircraft; the cheque for £350 was presented to Coxswain Albert...
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The upkeep of the Dungeness station has cost the R.N.L.I, huge sums of money over the years. The sea has receded so steadily that older Dungeness life-boat houses are far inland. This picture taken in November 1967 indicates some of the... - View image in PDF
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LIFE-BOAT SERVICES IN 1898.
Lives saved.
Addgunde, barque, of Tonsberg 12 Albert, ketch, of Watchet......... 3 Anglo-Saxon, barge — rendered assistance.
Annie Warren, sch.,...
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AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...
THE Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., told the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 25th March, 1969, that, following the serious deficit...
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Shortly before 10 o'clock in the evening of 18th April last, just as the s.s. Clanwood, of Sunderland, was leaving Hartlepool for Ghent, with a cargo of coal, a gas explosion occurred on board.
The weather was fine with...
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• Richard Evans of Moelfre has now joined the distinguished band of lifeboatmen of whom a full-length biography has been written. This is Lifeboat VC by Ian Skidmore (David and Charles, £4.95).
The great rescues from...
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CAMPBELTOWN.—A new life-boat station has been established at Campbeltown, in Cantyre, on the West Coast of Scotland, and a 30 ft. 6-oared single-banked, selfrighting life-boat was forwarded there from London in June last. The cost of this...
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