Lifeboats from many member countries of the International Lifeboat Federation alongside during the 1991 conference in Oslo. The RNLI's Mersey class is clearly visible, as are several Colin Archer-type sailing lifeboats long since retired... - View image in PDF
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In the old days members of West Wight lifeboat guild had to sell souvenirs from a trestle at Yarmouth lifeboathouse, often in wind and bad weather. Now Coxswain Dave Kennett and his crew have built them a kiosk inside the boathouse from... - View image in PDF
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Whitby's 44ft Waveney lifeboat The White Rose of Yorkshire at sea for the Tyne Tees TV current affairs programme 'Briefing' on the amalgamated Tyne Tees Coastguard area. The programme was screened during the first week in... - View image in PDF
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MR. W. J. OLIVER is not only one of the most devoted and indefatigable of the Honorary Secretaries who carry out the difficult and responsible task of administering the Station Branches, but he is himself a practical Life-boat man. His skill...
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The Angel of Death laughed aloud in his glee, As he wildly careered o'er the pitiless sea : To the winds and the waters he spake but a word, And the wind and the waters grew mad as they heard.
He laid his cold hand on...
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JANUARY 15TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. At 11.35 at night the Ballycotton look-out post reported a large flare seen three miles south-east of Ballycotton Lighthouse.
A fresh north-east wind was blowing,...
A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.
Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...
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FISHING BOATS IN A SNOWSTORM Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of February 28th, 1947, three motor fishing boats put to sea in mod- erate weather. By ten o'clock a strong easterly wind was blowing, with snow showers, the sea was...
NOVEMBER 27TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard that two men in a rowing boat were in difficulties one and a half miles east of Annalong. A N.W. gale, with sleet showers, was blowing, and the...
The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...
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