When the Amble life-boat went on exercise in April, 1967, with an R.A.F. helicopter Air Vice Marshal A. V. R. Johnstone (right), Air Officer Commanding, 18 Group, Coastal Command, was lowered into the life-boat. - View image in PDF
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The Hastings Motor Mechanic Has A Day Off. - View image in PDF
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THE leading principles of the following Directions for the Restoration of the apparently Dead from Drowning are founded on those of the late DR. MARSHALL HALL, combined with those of DR. H. R. SILVESTER, and are the result of extensive...
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On the even- ing of the 6th May the coastguard telephoned that a schooner, about one mile N.E. of Holyhead breakwater, was dragging her anchor and flying a dis- tress signal. Some of her sails had been blown away. The motor life-boat A.E.D....
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A 97-year-old man from Bournemouth is believed to have become the UK’s oldest skydiver after jumping out of a plane at 3,000m for the RNLI.
George Moyse jumped, in a tandem dive with an instructor, on 4 April. His grandson...
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No invitation had been sent to the Belgian Life-boat Service to attend the International Conference, because recent personal inquiries in Belgium had unfortunately failed to discover the existence of such an organisation, and because no...
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THE photograph on the cover is of Coxswain Frederick Palmer of Wey- mouth, who first joined the Weymouth crew in 1926. Since then Weymouth life-boats have been launched on service 240 times and have rescued 180 lives.
He...
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Two taken off BEAUMARIS ILB STATION deputy launching authority was informed by Penmon Coastguard at 1646 on Saturday, October 23, 1976, that sailing dinghies had capsized in the vicinity of Gallows Point and Garth Point, Menai Strait; the...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
St Bees - North Division St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man.
The shallow...
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