Boys and girls of Newmarket Swimming Club, aged from six years upwards, took part in a sponsored swim during May in aid of the RNLI. As a result Derek Blyth, swimming club instructor, handed over a cheque for £600 to Mrs Elizabeth... - View image in PDF
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The British oil tanker " Magdapur " broken in two off A'deburgh on 10th September The photograph was taken by the motor mechanic of the life-boat.. - View image in PDF
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RNLB Shoreline New members of Shoreline may not be aware that a lifeboat bearing the name of the organisation is stationed at Arbroath.
Built in 1979, RNLB Shoreline is a 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat with a wooden hull...
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THE building of new life-boats is necessarily delayed owing to war conditions.
I think it is, therefore, a suitable time to look back, and consider the way we have come to the present stage, then look forward, and consider...
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Station honorary secretary Major John Day (r.) and Crew Member Stephen Scott check over the boat outside the boathouse built in 1900.. - View image in PDF
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No Blue Book issued by a Government department is more interesting or more important than that issued annually by the Board of Trade dealing, by means of " Abstracts " of returns, with all the shipping casualties which each year...
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THE Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which depends entirely on voluntary contributions, was founded in 1824 and has now saved over 98,500 lives in peace and war. Sir William Hillary, the founder, built the lifeboat service on sound...
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Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of November, 1959, the second coxswain came to the conclusion that a 16-ft. fishing skiff with an out- board motor, which had put out at six o'clock and had not returned, might be in danger....
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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Kirkcudbright.—At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 20th of February, 1954, the Ross Island lighthouse keeper reported that a motor boat was drifting on the ebb tide. The coxswain had also seen her, and at 6.15 the life-boat J....