The 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell in Portland Race. Stationed at Weymouth since 1976, she was the first of her class to have the hull built in glass reinforced plastic. The Arun is a 'fast afloat' boat, her twin Caterpillar... - View image in PDF
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as a temporary measure the floor of the old building had been lowered (below) so that the lifeboat would fit inside!. - View image in PDF
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The St Mary's (Isle of Scilly) lifeboat Robert Edgar pictured while standing by the Cuban-registered refrigerated carrier Gran Piedra off St Agnes on Sunday 16 May 1993.The size of the seas and the severity of the weather can clearly be...
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 114, 126, 132, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive:...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—6th July, 1939.
Flares had been reported and the French motor ketch Ster Vras was found, but she did not need help.— Rewards, £14 15s..
Organising Secretary for Ireland VERY few people who are not associ- ated with the Life-boat Service seem to know that the life-boats on the coasts of Eire are controlled by the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and that as far as the...
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Wick, Caithness-shire. At 7.05 a.m.
on 2nd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Good Hope of Wick had been in collision with the Buckie boat Comet.
The Good...
A splendid ten foot model of the RNLI Medina lifeboat Mountbatten of Burma is named by Councillor Mrs Frances Humpherson, president of Newton Abbot branch. Lt John Gorrill, chairman of the branch who once served aboard HMS Kelly under Earl... - View image in PDF
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70' Clyde class, a trawler type lifeboat designed to lie offshore in such exposed waters as the Bristol Channel and the Orkneys, and to be able to remain at sea for long periods, if necessary, without refuelling. 70-003, on show at... - View image in PDF
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The ladies' life-boat guild of the Isles of Scilly organised a walk during the national sponsored walk period and it proved a great success, raising about £350. Two ways which brought in the most money were: Mrs. Leatherbarrow, wife... - View image in PDF
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