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The S.S. Colytto
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 21st of April, 1949, information was received that one of the crew of the s.s. Colytto, of Rotterdam, which was anchored one mile south-west of Lightning Knoll Buoy, urgently needed a doctor....
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The Arklow Lightvessel
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.25 on the evening of the 25th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights tele- phoned that a relative of a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel was seriously ill, and asked if the life-boat would...
The Motor Yacht Gramarie (Above), Known to Be Lying at Palma, Majorca, In the Mid-1960s, Was Once the Margate, Kent, Life-Boat On694
The motor yacht Gramarie (above), known to be lying at Raima, Majorca, in the mid-1960s, was once the Margate, Kent, life-boat ON694 J. P. Proudfoot. She was built in 1924, and in 1940 the crew shown below took her out to rescue P/O Richard... - View image in PDF
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The Converted Ship's Boat Dorothy
Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.50 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1954, the St. Aldhelm's Head coastguard rang up to say that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties about two miles east of the Head. At six o'clock the life- boat R....
New Ways of Raising Money
A 'heady' tradition was upheld in double measure at Aberdeen in May when the maiden catch of the Shetland seine-net boat Evening Star was auctioned.
Traditionally, the buyer of the first box offish from a maiden...
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The Sailing Boat Junior
BOAT BEING SWEPT OUT TO SEA Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of May, 1947, the coastguard reported that a sailing boat was becalmed and drifting off the breakwater. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at eleven o'...
The R.N.L.I. Goes to Miami
EARLY last year Mr. Hugh Matheson, jr., of the Jamaica Inn, Miami, Florida, U.S.A., made a request for English life-boat service photographs to hang in a room there. His request was fulfilled.
In October came news that,...
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