The service of the same Life-boat on the 20th January, is thus reported in The East Anglian Daily Times :— "Those who were on Harwich pier between nine and ten on the morning of the 21st January, will not readily forget the scene...
The fill/owing information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service in which it towed in the three Royal Nary inshore... - View image in PDF
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The Prince of Wales's Tribute and Appeal.
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Grimsby on 19th July for the purpose of visiting the decks and opening a new bridge he made a reference to the close connexion between the...
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Above: The drummer boy would walk through the village to alert the crew when they were needed for a rescue. - View image in PDF
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Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.
The four survivors...
THE RNLI'S ACCOUNTS for 1975 are not complete at the time of going to press, hut it is certain that expenditure will have exceeded income. In other words there w i l l he a deficit which will have to he made good.
The...
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(above) Coxswain Bruce Brown aims the bows of his lifeboat between the outstretched arms of the head launcher.. - View image in PDF
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Flamborough, Yorkshire.—About 1.0 in the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1951, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that two Meteor jet aeroplanes had crashed into the cliffs at Bempton in a mist. Later, he said it was between the...
Photograph above was taken during capsize and righting exercise. The crew, clear of the Atlantic 21 but attached to her by lifeline, have pulled the activating cord, gas has been released into buoyancy bag and the boat is righting. Note... - View image in PDF
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ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
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