The Margate, Kent, 1KB assisting the m.f.v. Jaroma on 24th August, 1969, when she ran aground on a sand bank. Four men were taken off her and the service in which the Margate life-boat also took part is described on this. - View image in PDF
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The Sir Godfrey Baring, a 46-feet 9-inches Watson motor life-boat with two 40 h.p. engines and a deck cabin (See page 277). - View image in PDF
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Fred Oisen Cruise Lines have donated a fantastic first prize for the Winter Lifeboat Lottery - a two-week luxury Caribbean Cruise for two, plus £500 spending money.. - View image in PDF
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THE famous explorer, Captain Cook, was born near Stockton-on-Tees, in Yorkshire, on 27th October, 1728, and his bicentenary was celebrated this year.
His mother was a member of an old Redcar family, while his sister married...
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Members of the watchstanding crew at work in the U.S. Coast Guard's automated merchant vessel report (AMVER) centre on Governors Island, New York. The man on the left evaluates voyage information received over the teleprinter, while the... - View image in PDF
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An aerial view of Ramsey Sound from the north. The Bitches can be seen as a thin line of rocks running eastwards into the sound off the island of Ramsey on the right.
Photograph by courtesy of West Air Photography.
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The 44ft Waveney, introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964, was the first of the RNLI's fast afloat boats. The US Coast Guard 44ft steel motor lifeboat seen here is out ofQuillyute lifeboat station. Lapush. Washington. photograph by... - View image in PDF
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THIS Committee was appointed on the 2nd of May last to enquire into the existing laws and regulations regarding boats, life-buoys and other life-saving gear required to be carried by British merchant ships, and to report if any amendments...
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To aaaompany the Life Boat Journal.
WRECK CHART OF THE BRITISH ISLES FOR THE YEAR 1912-13.
(Compiled from the Board of Trade Wreck Register), Showing the Wrecks and serious Casualties. Also the Lifeboat...
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How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1949.
£ s. d.
26 6 6 • •M MW Subscriptions, Donations, Collecting Boxes, and Special Efforts, 15 1 9 K ...
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