With the exception of three short- range boats, all the Institution's life- boats, both in the active and in the reserve fleet, are equipped with M/F (medium frequency) radio-telephony.
The advantages of a life-boat...
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Front row (I to r) Mrs Madron, Mrs Richards and Mrs Blewett of Penlee, with the medallists (each row I to r, starting from front): Motor Mechanic Robert Vowles, Coxswain Michael Scales and Second Coxswain Peter Bougourd, St Peter Port;... - View image in PDF
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Above: The new 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat at Red Bay, Co Antrim, is launched from her carriage. In the summer the station is kept busy with many holidaymakers attracted to this impressive part of the coast. The Mull of Kintyre on... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboatman Paul Rogers ho/ding a bedraggled but unhurt Sheba. - View image in PDF
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...
THE following are some extracts from the report of the Irish District Inspector on the voyage which the new Wexford Motor Life-boat made to her Station, under her own power, as soon as her trials at Cowes had been...
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Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
In appreciation...
Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...
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PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
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Lifeboatmen help out in floods. - View image in PDF
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