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An Unusual Hazard for a Lifeboat - Three of the Ex-D Class Lifeboats Almost Surrounded By Floating Water Hyacinths at the Training Base Near Dacca
An Unusual Hazard For A Lifeboat - Three of the Ex-D Class Lifeboats Almost Surrounded By Floating Water Hyacinths at The Training Base Near Dacca. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Yacht Gramarie (Above), Known to Be Lying at Palma, Majorca, In the Mid-1960s, Was Once the Margate, Kent, Life-Boat On694
The motor yacht Gramarie (above), known to be lying at Raima, Majorca, in the mid-1960s, was once the Margate, Kent, life-boat ON694 J. P. Proudfoot. She was built in 1924, and in 1940 the crew shown below took her out to rescue P/O Richard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Difficult Cliff Operation
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain C. J.
Crockford and crew of the Tenby, Pembrokeshire, life-boat for the...
Category: Services
(Below) Weymouth Lifeboat the 52' Barnett Frank Spiller Locke Leaving Harbour at 1507 on Thursday June 12 to Help Four Canoeists Reported In Difficulty Off Bowleaze Co
(Below) Weymouth lifeboat, the 52' Barnett Frank Spiller Locke, leaving harbour at 1507 on Thursday, June 12, to help four canoeists reported in difficulty off Bowleaze Cove. The wind was gale force north-north-easterly, the sea rough... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
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Venus II
PROPELLER WAS FOULED At 8.40 a.m. on ist June, 1964, the local motor fishing vessel Venus II reported to Whitby harbour by radio telephone that she had fouled her propeller with crab pots. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Focus on Mudeford
MUDEFORD, Hampshire, was on of the first stations to take an inshore life-boat in 1963.
It was operated on an experimental basis during the summer of that year. The boat was withdrawn for the winter and then Iudeford was...
Category: Articles
Rugged In the Extreme Caithness Lifeboat Stations: Thurso and Wick By Joan Davies
In winter, on ten to fifteen days out of every month, winds will blow at force 7 or above around the north-eastern tip of Scotland. The waters of the Pentland and Moray Firths are some of the most notorious in the world. The mainland...
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The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXVIII. HARWICH.—The Springwett, 45 feet by 11 feet, 12 oars.
HARWICH, standing on the extremity of a tongue of land or narrow peninsula pro- jecting into the estuary of the rivers Stour and Orwell, is said to have risen...
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