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Hypalon coated nylon inflatable sponsons. All new boats are now orange.
Conical diaphram between sections allows some transfer of pressure if forward section is damaged and leaking.
Marine ply deck over...
Category: Articles
There Was a Constant Stream of Visitors to See Mountbatten of Burma the Prototype Rnli Medina 35 Lifeboat
There was a constant stream of visitors to see Mountbatten of Burma, the prototype RNLI Medina 35 lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Roy Castle and the Crew of Yarmouth Lifeboat at the Making of the Shipshapes Video for Children
Above: Roy Castle and the crew of Yarmouth lifeboat at the making of the Shipshapes video for children.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence
New Ways of Raising Money
MRS. BOUTWOOD, honorary secretary of the Stanmore branch, has been holding gramophone evenings for young people, contributions for the entertainment being given to the Life- boat Service.
An unusual dance for those in their...
Category: Donations
Hrh Princess Alexandra Arrives at Portpatrick the Naming and Dedication Ceremony
HRH Princess Alexandra arrives at Portpatrick for the naming and dedication ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Handy, of Wexford
The schooner Handy, of Wexford, bound from Ayr for that port with coals, struck on the Black- water Bank on the evening of the 10th January, during a thick fog, and sprung a leak, when she made for the shore at Cahore, where she subsequently...
The First Service of the Lerwick Life-Boat
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made possible by the system of coast communication which had recently been...
Category: Services
A Sailing Boat (3)
MAY 30TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, AND WORTHING, SUSSEX. During the afternoon a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.
At...
A Fishing Boat (4)
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—2nd June, 1938. A fishing boat was in distress, but her crew of five were rescued from the shore by the coastguard rocket life - saving appliances. — Rewards, £25 19s..