By Mr. OTTAR VOGT, Secretary of the Norwegian Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked.
THE coast of Norway is very extensive and mountainous, rocky and precipitous all over — the whole coastline being guarded by a fence...
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To celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Walmer Life- boat station the Goodwin Sands and Downs branch of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild launched, at the suggestion of the branch secretary, Mrs. Cavell, a special campaign to...
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Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...
A welcome that leaves other es in our wake A PASSION FOR BOATING Hilton To book any of the Hilton Boat Show Packages call Hilton Special Events on 08705 201201 and quote 'London Boat Show'. Lines are open from 8am to 11pm on Monday...
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NO DISCOS.
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NO MORE THAN 10 PASSENGERS.
PRESENTING THE Pl&FECT VOYAGE TO SOUPH-ATOICA r/: oin us on a leisurely 16 day voyage to...
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Under the heading " More Motor Life-boats " the following letter from the Secretary of the Institution appeared in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce on the 22nd April, 1920 :.— SIR,—I have read with much pleasure in a recent issue...
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When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
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IT is NOW possible to become a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Up to now anyone interested could become a member of a branch or guild of the R.N.L.I., a governor of the Institution, an honorary vice-president, or a member...
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In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 86, 88,91, the following launches for service were made during the months December, 1967 to February, 1968, inclusive: Aldeburgh...
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In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 182, 792, and 201, the. following launches on service were made during the months March to May, 19673 inclusive: Abersoch,...
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