VELLUM FOR DUNGENESS COXSWAIN On the 7th of August, 1962, the Dungeness life-boat rescued the crew of five of the trimaran Nimble Eve. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 344, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...
The schooner Handy, of Wexford, bound from Ayr for that port with coals, struck on the Black- water Bank on the evening of the 10th January, during a thick fog, and sprung a leak, when she made for the shore at Cahore, where she subsequently...
WE have from time to time advocated in the strongest terms the supply of efficient life-belts to the crews of all our merchantships, and have pointed out the duty that devolves on shipowners to provide'the same, although the law of the...
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THE LiFE-BoAT.
Words by Vice-Admiral J. E. WARD.
~ 'i mf Last Verse and Music composed by C. H. PURDAT.
VOICE.
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Fine ships and...
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After The Service The Damaged Life-Boat and Her Crew. - View image in PDF
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STEAMER AND MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the Dover honorary secretary that a collision had taken place between two vessels, the s.s. Sabac...
During a thick fog on the 24th July, the s.s. Torbryan, of Glasgow, stranded on the rocks at Dodds Well, about 1 i miles north of Berwick Harbour, at 1.30 P.M. The life-saving apparatus went to her assistance and stood by in readiness, but...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.35 A.M. on the 12th April, 1939, the coastguard reported that the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel was firing guns and flying signals indicating that a vessel was in...
Members of the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team added to their existing lifeboat and swift-water rescue training commitments by running in the Virgin London Marathon on 25 April, aiming to raise £20,000 and the RNLI’s...
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BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 7th October the s.s. Arabian, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool to Gibraltar with a general cargo, went ashore about a mile and a half westward of the East Mouse, near Bull Bay, during a dense fog...