Channel Island collision Alderney's Trent class Roy Barker I and St Peter Port's Severn class Spirit of Guernsey attended in the early hours of 31 January 2006 after chemical tanker fCf collided with the bulk carrier Crot-Rowecki....
A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...
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TWO UNIQUE C L I F F O R D JAMES O F F E R S L E A T H E R COMFORT & VALUE TRADITIONAL REAL LEATHER SANDAL for men The New BEACHCOMBER R TOP SELLING MEN'S SANDAL ONLY £14-99 FREE DELIVERY This season BEACHCOMBER, our most...
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1,072 Lives Rescued by the Twenty James Stevens Life-boats.
IN 1894 the Institution received under the will of the late Mr. James Stevens, of Birmingham, a sum of £50,000, to be spent on the construction of twenty...
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• Storms brought devastation to Margate during the winter of 1978, destroying its pier and wrecking the lifeboat station. However, as a result of the research which followed to replace the lost service boards of Margate's lifeboats,...
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Propeller fouled AT ABOUT 2100 on Thursday June 1, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Hartlepool lifeboat station that a Shackleton aircraft and a helicopter were searching for the MFV Dolphin whose trawl had caught on an...
COMMANDER J. M. UPTON, M.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who has been Super- intendent of the Life-boat Depot since 1941, has retired and has been suc- ceeded by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N.
Commander Upton, who was born at Petworth...
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USA COAST TO COAST 2003 Departure Dates and Costs 22 April £2250 8.22 July £2490 6 May £2350 2.9 Sept £2490 3 June £2390 30 Sept £2390 17 June £2490 New York to the Rockies and California Travel with the...
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THE Blackpool life-boat band, which was founded in 1884, and was then the only life-boat band in the world, has now been disbanded. The idea of forming a band was conceived at a time when Blackpool had not yet become a popular holiday resort...
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Lerwick's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Soldian with her crew and crew reserves. She was named by HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution on September 12, 1978.
Included in the report of the ceremony published in... - View image in PDF
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