By Staff-Commander F. J. EVANS, R.N., F.R.S., Superintendent of Compasses to the Admiralty.
[IN the 47th Number of this Journal, when giving a drawing and a short description of the Fluid Compass supplied by this...
Category: Articles
RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services
EVERY reader of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL will remember how the whole civilized world was appalled at the sad news of the wreck of the s.s. Berlin at the mouth of the Hook of Holland on the 21st February, 1907, when so many precious lives were...
Category: Articles
Mr. Felix Rubie, M.I.N.A., who died on 25th February last, had passed the greater part of his life in the service of the Institution. Born in 1862, he was brought up at Cowes, and it was there that he learnt his sailing. He served his...
Category: Obituaries
I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...
Category: Articles
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—About 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that he had received warning of a full south- westerly gale, and at 9.45 he stated that several fishing boats were at...
SPECIAL WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE 10,000 PAIRS OF CRIMPLENE TROUSERS FOR SALE TROUSERS FROM fOO.97 ONLY 4mA +P&P FAMOUS QUALITY CRIMPLENE 100% CREASE RESISTANT POLYESTER-AT CLEARANCE PRICES Fantastic scoop purchase at unbelievable low prices...
Category: Advertisement
Two inshore lifeboats save man cut off by tide A service by Redcar's Atlantic 21 and D class to a man cut off by the / x t i d e some five miles away from the station has earned Atlantic Crew member Tony Wild, D class helmsman Mark...
A SELECTION FROM OVER 100 PHARMACEUTICAL-GRADE SUPPLEMENTS QUALITY GUARANTEED – HEALTHSPAN PRODUCTS ARE MADE USING THE PUREST INGREDIENTS IN PREMISES THAT CONFORM TO THE STRICTEST PHARMACEUTICAL STANDARDS (GMP). IF YOU’RE NOT ENTIRELY HAPPY...
Category: Advertisement
GENTLY DOES IT A crash between a personal watercraft and a powerboat left a 16-year-old boy in agony, needing urgent but careful attention Aberdovey lifeboat crew were just back from a call out to a kitesurfer when they were asked by radio...
Category: Articles