The prototype 47ft Tyne fast slipway lifeboat City of London (1) and the relief 33ft Brede lifeboat to be named Merchant Navy heading out through Poole Harbour at the start of their passage to Gothenburg where they were demonstrated at the... - View image in PDF
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The Lifeguard ‘It was high tide on the afternoon of 28 June and I had just come on duty at Trebarwith Strand, north Cornwall. The surf was rough and we were flying the red flag. I chatted with a couple of anglers, a dad and his stepson on...
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Raymond Baxter, who opened ' The Modern Lifeboat' exhibition, studying crew position and VHP radio of the Atlantic 21 with Miss Margaret Weston, Director of the Science Museum.. - View image in PDF
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Launches 36 Lives rescued 49 SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the...
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EASTBOURNE: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were... - View image in PDF
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Following the untimely death of Phil Doolan of Fareham, his family asked that money be donated to the RNLI as he was a keen sailor and dinghy instructor.
Phil was a consultant in the defence industry and had a long... - View image in PDF
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Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor...
• Lifeboats of the World by E. W.
Middleton (Blandford Press £3.75) is the most comprehensive study yet made of the way in which different countries organise their lifeboat services. The author examines the services in...
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IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.
To the three services to this...
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Committee, forthwith approached the Board of Trade with a view to the holding of the proposed Conference. In due course the Board of Trade called together the Conference at which the Committee of Management of the Institution, the Com-...
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