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A Boat (3)
NOVEMBER 10TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
Just before seven in the evening a message was received from the representative of a salvage company which was engaged in breaking up the wreck of the S.S. Marie Chandris, off Amsterdam...
A Royal Air Force Machine
Montrose, Angus. — 14th October, 1937. A Royal Air Force machine had crashed in Lunan Bay and sunk. One man was lost. The other was rescued by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £9 12*. 6
A Royal Air Force Aeroplane
Aith, Shetlands.—20th August, 1939.
Rockets had been seen by the coastguard, and a message was received that a Royal Air Force aeroplane was missing, but the life-boat found nothing.
—Rewards, £8 13,9...
King George In a Motor Life-Boat
IP a motor boat could speak, the Beaumaris motor Life - boat, which should reach her station shortly after this article is in print, would be able to make a boast which few of her sister boats could equal, and which should prove a source of...
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A perfect match
The National Association of Round Tables of Great Britain and Ireland has supported the RNLI since the 1970s, funding 10 lifeboats. Now it has made the RNLI its Presidential Charity of the Year, May 2010–11.
The...
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An art for all seasons
What home is complete without a seascape on the wall?
The sea provides a backdrop to all our lives – even in our homes, for we seem to have an indefatigable appetite for seascapes. Romance, beauty, danger and power are all...
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A Speed Boat
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 1st April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speed boat with five persons aboard, which had left Rhyl that morning, had not returned. At 10.20 a report was received...
A Yacht
APRIL 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A small yacht, with three men on board, was in distress in a gale, but the men were rescued by a fishing smack. - Rewards, £8 9s.
(See Sheerness, “ Services by Shore-boats,”...
A Small Boat Belonging to The P&O Steam Cruiser Ophir
At 5.30 P.M. on the 27th December, when a rough sea was running off Southend, it was reported that a small boat was adrift and making signals of distress by means of a lantern. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 were at once...
A Life-Boat Rescue
The full strength of the Atlantic seems now devoted to the destruction of the frail craft yet rocking on the submerged reef at the mouth of the Channel. The waves rush thunderingly to the attack like squadrons of heavy cavalry. They have...
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