LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Type of Life-Boat
A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
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Lifeboat Services from Page 118
Lifeboat Services from page 118 July 6, 26. 28. August 10, 11, 23 and 24 (twice) Crimdon Dene, Co Durham D class inflatable: June 15. 28, July 28, August 16 and 24 Cromer, Norfolk 48ft din Oakley: June 23 D class inflatable: July 12, August...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At about 5 P.M. on the 23rd April an aeroplane fell into the sea about two hundred yards from the...
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Services by Shore-Boats (10)
BURRAFIRTH, LERWICK, SHETLANDS. At 1.52 P.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the coastguard asked the Lighthouse Shore Station at Burrafirth to send its boat to pick up the crew of the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, which had been sunk by enemy...
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Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.
Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...
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Inshore Lifeboat Launches on Service
ILB Launches on service during the months June, July and August 1974 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 4 and July 1.
Aberdovey, Gwynedd 1, 23, July 2, 17, 19 (twice), 20, 23, 31, August 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 19 (twice) and...
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Some Ways of Raising Monev
'A Queen's Gala' at Pitcaple Castle, Inverurie, on Sunday June 10 raised £1,600 for the lifeboat service. During the afternoon six scenes from the life of Mary Queen of Scots were danced on the lawn by pupils of the Anne...
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The Fundraisers
Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
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Feature Just Like the Real Thing
Training simulatorThe future of training With lives at risk at sea, the RNLI takes its training very seriously, but serious training doesn't have to be dull or old-fashionedImagine you're out on a shout in storm force conditions....
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FALMOUTH. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at this port. Although the harbour of Falmouth is of a land-locked character, yet there are occasions when disasters occur in its immediate vicinity...
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