FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Coxswain Michael Berry of St Helier (I.), who was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for the service to the yacht Bacchus in 1973, with the late Coxswain Thomas James King, who was awarded the gold medal for the service to the yacht... - View image in PDF
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At 3.55 A.M. on the 15th February signals of distress were heard from a steamer about half a mile to the west of Port Eynon Point. The crew of the Life- boat Janet were promptly summoned and the boat launched. The weather was hazy, and it...
(Above) The West German 23m lifeboat Eiswette arriving at the RNLI Poole depot quay, Wednesday May 30. - View image in PDF
She carries a daughter lifeboat on her after deck which is launched from her stern.. - View image in PDF
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The Relief Tyne class lifeboat Mariner's Friend about to be hauled along a newly-dug channel by a tug. - View image in PDF
Storms tore the lifeboat from her mooring, but she sufferred no damage. (Photo Evening Gazette). - View image in PDF
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AMONG the numerous models sent in for competition for the Northumberland Prize in 1850 there were no less than twenty-one varieties of Life-rafts, some supported by one cylinder, but more by two; some by closed canoes; some by a boat divided...
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The Record of the Poole and Bournemouth Committee.
IN the article in the last issue of The Lifeboat on the Life-boat Station at : Appledore, which celebrated its centenary last summer, was given the re-markable record of...
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How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was paid out in 1949.
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How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1950.
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18 7 6 M. _M _HM Subscriptions, Dona- tions, Collecting, Boxes.
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