THE PRESENTATION of no fewer than 23 medals for gallantry, an exceptionally high number for any one year, provided the central feature of this year's annual general meeting and served as a reminder to the large number of supporters...
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WE KNOW ABOUT THE SEA HERE and we have the books to prove it! DEVON as your introduction to the Maritime Book Society worth up to £20 or more at publishers' prices! rnrnrn x oks numbers j J I 1 [__ I would like to join the...
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52-01, Arun, prototype of her class, now stationed at Barry Dock. As soon as she was launched it was clear that here was the embodiment of new ideas.. - View image in PDF
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Peterhead.—At 2 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd April Coxswain Cameron received a telephone message from the Coastguards stating that some vessels were firing rockets and burning flares in South Bay for assistance as they were in...
Margate, Kent. — At 7.41 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground on Margate Sands. At 7.50 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11} was launched. The sea was slight, there was a...
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—A life-boat station has been recently formed at Fleetwood in connection with the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. A life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S plan, as adopted by the Institution, 30 ft. long, rowing six oars,...
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Thursday, 2nd June, 1853. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., in the Chair.
Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Reported the death, on the...
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CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently for- warded to the coast of Wexford a new Life-boat, which has been stationed at Cahore, in the place of the former Boat. It is 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, rows 10 oars...
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