Poole: After HRH Crown Prince Harald of Norway, Honorary Colonel of the Royal Marines, had visited Commando units at Hamworthy on November 4 he embarked in one of the Institution's latest 52ft Arun class lifeboats and was brought round... - View image in PDF
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EPIRBs (Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons) are portable satellite communication units (see a selection below), designed to send an automated distress signal to search and rescue authorities ashore. The RNLI recommends that small... - View image in PDF
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A new pilot scheme created by the RNLI aims to keep sea anglers safe while they enjoy their sport.
Last year 11 sea anglers tragically lost their lives while fishing in the UK, and the RNLI responded to over 1,200...
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The 13 crew members who lost their lives
were: Sam Distin, Albert Distin, Peter Foale
Senior, Peter Foale Junior, William Foale,
James Canham, James Cove, Ashley Cook,
Frank Cudd, John Cudd,... - View image in PDF
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SCOTLAND RNLI Bellevue House Hopetoun Street Edinburgh EH7 4ND Tel 031-5579171 Fax 031-557 6943 Organising Secretary: David Richardson Aberdeenshire Aberdeen - Branch Aberdeen - Guild Banchory Bridge of Don Dyce Ellon Fraserburgh - Branch...
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Clarke, Chapman & Company Ltd 233 Classified Advertisements 279 Coastal Radio Ltd. 231 Cogswell & Harrison Ltd. 235 Dodson-Bull Carpet Co 229 Francis Searchlights 239 Gallaher Ltd Back cover Gardner Engines (Sales) Ltd 205 LM.B.E....
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FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood tide and raising a very rough broken sea...
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—A violent gale was experienced here on the morning of the 14th January, the wind blowing furiously from S.8.W., and the heavy seas lashing themselves into a mass of foam. At 11.45 the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched,...
SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat the Institution has lost a number of friends and workers : Sir Charles Macara, Bt., J.P., Chairman of the St. Anne's-onthe- Sea Branch, and founder of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund ; the Lady...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 5th February the police reported that Ryde Hospital had received a message from Niton Radio Station that the liner Delambre, of Liverpool, bound from London to the River Plate, was at anchor...