THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, an j to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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AT the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1903, there were embraced in the Life-saving Service of the United States no less than 273 stations, 196 of which were established on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60. on the...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...
CARDIGAN.—:During a gale from the S.W. on the 9th February the schooner Alexander, of Beaumaris, bound from Port Dinorwic for Carmarthen with a cargo of slates, ran for Cardigan Bay, and brought up off the Black Rocks outside the...
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 267, 283, and 304, the following launches on service were made during the months June to August, 1967, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
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The crew of Katy-M, the entry from Kearney and Trecker Marwin, Brighton, pause to talk to Newhaven lifeboat crew after winning the River Ouse annual raft race from Lewes to Newhaven on April 15, knocking two minutes off their own record time... - View image in PDF
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Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...
MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
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ALL in Great Britain who knew Lieut.- Commander Hendrik de Booy, secretary of the North and South Holland Life- boat Society, will learn with regret that he has just retired, and will join in wishing him happiness in his retirement.
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Fig 1: Port engine has been lowered into place in engine room by crane.. - View image in PDF
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