Lerwick: After standing by the listing Fred Everard all night, on her slow progress towards Lerwick through gale force winds, as the list increased, the 52' Barnett relief lifeboat Ramsay Dyce took off her chief engineer's wife and... - View image in PDF
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Torbay Motor Life-boat to be Named after Him.
AT their meeting on 17th September the Committee of Management resolved to " mark their high appreciation of Sir George Shee, as Secretary of the Institu- tion for...
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SWEDISH TANKER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 4.27 on the morning of the 2nd June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Esso Stockholm had a very sick seaman on board who needed medical attention...
Penlee, Cornwall- At 3 p.m. on loth April, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that the life-boat's services had been requested at 11 o'clock to take a sick woman off a Liberian tanker. The lifeboat Solomon Browne was launched...
STEAMER TOWED IN St. Mary'*, Scilly Islands.—At about 10.40 on the night of the 4th of October, 1947, the Round Island Lighthouse wirelessed that a vessel was firing dis- tress signals about two miles north of the island, and the motor...
On the 30th December the brig Delegate, of London, struck on the Caister Shoal, or Inner Barber Sands, while the wind was blowing very hard from the south.
A Caister yawl went off to her assistance, but although one of the...
An RNLI Lifeguard With A Family Caught Up In The Perranporth Incident. - View image in PDF
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The latest material to be assessed by the RNLI is FRC (fibre reinforced composite). Light weight and good abrasion resistance is claimed for the new material and tests with a prototype Mersey (seen above at Newhaven on trials) have been... - View image in PDF
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Motor Life-Boats of the North and South Holland Life-Boat Society on the Zuidersee. - View image in PDF
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