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Additional Life-Boats to Come Into Production Will Include Those of the 70-Foot, 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent, 44-Foot Steel and 37-Foot Oakley Classes. the Four Types Mentioned Are Shown Above In That Or
Additional life-boats to come into production will include those of the 70-foot, 48-foot 6-inch Solent, 44-foot steel and 37-foot Oakley classes. The four types mentioned are shown above in that order.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Index to Advertisers
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Category: Advertisement
Naming Ceremonies In Ireland
FOUR life-boats were named in Ireland in August and September, 1950, at Donaghadee, Clogher Head, Baltimore and Arranmore.
Donaghadee The new Donaghadee life-boat has been built out of a gift from Lady Kelly, of...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboats on Loch Ness
As if they won’t face enough challenges, the RNLI’s newest crew will be keeping an eye out for monsters as the charity takes over the Coastguard rescue station on Loch Ness.
At the time of writing, a trial was about to...
Category: Articles
Two Inflatable Dinghies
Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...
People and Places
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...
Category: Articles
Royal Summer
'THE PLEASURE of your company' is a phrase so often used that we rarely listen to the words themselves; but when members of the royal family honour the lifeboat service with their company everyone knows the days will not only be...
Category: Inaugurations
Conference and Conversazione of "Life-Boat Saturday" Workers
WITH a view to the interchange of ideas and suggestions as to the " Life-boat Saturday" movement, a conference took place in the rooms of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, on the afternoon of the 2nd May. Representatives were present...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat Services
ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was flooding. Both main bilge and...
Category: Services
Triple Jack
Breeches buoy HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station at 0945 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that a distress call had been received from a small boat aground on rocks at Dulas Island, two miles north north...