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The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. i.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1...
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Letters
Evening Cruise On Tuesday July 5 Harwich branch chartered a harbour ferry for an evening cruise up the River Stour and at 1910 on a perfect summer's evening the ferry set sail with 99 adults and six children on board. The ladies'...
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Shoreline
Insignia You may not be aware of the various insignia available exclusively to you. The picture (r) will show you what you may be missing: a hoist flag . . . a Shoreline tie ... a marcasite brooch . . . a sweat shirt? Not in the picture is...
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Ian Taylor (Left) General Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland
Ian Taylor (left). General Manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland's Consumer Division, presents a cheque for £90,000 to The Duke of Atholl, the chairman of the RNLI, at a ceremony at the London Boat Show. The money represents... - View image in PDF
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Hands-on history of lifesaving
A 2-year interactive exhibition on search and rescue has opened at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth.
We’ve loaned the museum a B class lifeboat, a lifeguard all-terrain vehicle and a range of collection...
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The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup (1)
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
Galway Bay Life-Boat During Search for Aircraft
(see page 133). - View image in PDF
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Emsadler and Pandora
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.14 p.m. on 7th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the tanker Metco advising him that two men were drifting past her in lifejackets. A further...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
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Critical choice
With his dive buddy unconscious on the seabed, Luke Corkill faced a split-second decision: should he risk the bends by bringing her up fast, or face handing a body over to RNLI crews?
Dive...
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