IN November 1908 and in February this year an account was given in the Life-boat Journal of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and also some Notes of the way she is built. It may now be of interest to the coxswains and crews who man...
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MARCH 11TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An upturned boat had been reported, but was found to be a large log of timber. - Rewards, £7 5s.
MARCH 15TH - 17TH. - LYTHAM-ST.
ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.30 A.M.
information was received from the resident naval officer at Preston, and confirmed by the coastguard, that a vessel was aground, and at 10...
As a consequence of the steady in- crease in the number of services by life- boats and the need to train crews in the use of new types of rescue craft and equipment it has been decided to increase from the 1st July, 1963, the number of the...
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Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...
As waves hurled themselves at the narrow harbour entrance, two lifeboat crews needed to combine their skills to get a yacht to safety
A gale force 8 was lashing Newlyn Harbour as Coxswain Patch...
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SEA-MAR DIESEL LIMITED M.O.D. Approved Reg. No. 3W7601 THE LARGEST STOCK OF RECONDITIONED DETROIT DIESEL ENGINES IN THE UK NOW AVAILABLE AT REDUCED PRICES FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE MOST POPULAR APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON SHORT DELIVERY ALL ENGINES...
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all three 70ft Clyde class (right) were withdrawn from service during the summer of 1988. The Clydes will be sold out of service and two of the four McLachlans will be retained for use as boarding boats at Number (Clyde photo courtesy... - View image in PDF
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The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the bri- gantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartle- pool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale...
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