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TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
Category: Services
The National Maritime Historical Society
Oil the 125th Anniversary of the most legendary clipper ship of all time...
The National Maritime Historical Society Sponsors THE CUTTY SARK ANNIVERSARY MARITIME HOURGLASS She earned Listing fame .is the greyhound of the...
Category: Advertisement
The Navy Helps the Life-Boat Service In Edinburgh
A record day: over £1,900 raised.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
End of a Life-Boat Band
THE Blackpool life-boat band, which was founded in 1884, and was then the only life-boat band in the world, has now been disbanded. The idea of forming a band was conceived at a time when Blackpool had not yet become a popular holiday resort...
Category: Articles
Relief Fleet-D Class Phyl Clare
Mr Anthony Oliver, deputy head of fund raising and marketing, accepts the new relief fleet D class lifeboat Phyl Clare from Mrs Phyl Cleare during the naming and dedication ceremony at the Poole depot.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Noisy and Spectacular
(right) Noisy and spectacular - one of the Coastguard's helicopters arrived each day to give spectators a close-up of transfers to and from an Atlantic off the depot quay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty Kiso EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
Category: Medals
None (12)
20th De- cember. Reports of guns had been heard, but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found.—Permanent crew. Rewards, 9*..
Eight Lloyds Bank Staff from Petersfield Branch Their Friends and Customers Together With An East Hampshire Post
Eight Lloyds Bank staff from Petersfield branch, their friends and customers together with an East Hampshire Post reporter made a sponsored parachute jump last April.
The adventurous group, who raised £750 for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...
Category: Articles