Five intrepid members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club, (7 to r) Paul Ward, Mike Boyce, Ian Burgess, Steve Towill and Colin Ward, ready to set out from their base camp at the Lansdowne public house, Dawlish. These men crawled— literally... - View image in PDF
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Main picture - Lifeboats from all over the world on demonstration at sea during conference week: (front) Dutch Valentyn class lifeboat, Watersporr. (middle) Norway's Emmy Dyvi class, Bergen Kreds; and (back), Finland's Rescue Cruiser... - View image in PDF
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TWENTY-NINE HOURS AT SEA Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.25 a.m.
on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the coaster Normanby Hall had asked for assistance as she was aground off South Rock. The life-boat Constance...
RCC Press announce the publication of ROVING COMMISSIONS 14 This anthology of cruising logs by members of the Royal Cruising Club—published in a limited edition—is available to subscribers, post free, making use of the order form below Order...
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MAJOR ARTHUR THOMAS FISHER founded the Salisbury Branch of the Institution in 1910, has been its Honorary Secretary ever since, and is still its Honorary Secretary at the great age of eighty.
Born on May Day in 1843, he is...
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By COUNT KOZO YOSHII, President of Teikoku Suinan Kinsaikai (the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society).[Count Kozo Yoshii represented the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society at the International Life-boat Conference held in London, in July of...
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Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1939 During the year life-boats were launched 685 times. Of these launches 200 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...
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Mr N. H. Avis, of Durrington, near Hastings, who is a member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, a year or two ago made a model of the 44-foot steel lifeboat Faithful Forester which is stationed at Dover. It has won high praise from... - View image in PDF
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. . . while the farmer's sons and policemen tried to calm and control those waiting. With an incoming tide, time was against them.. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 8TH - TYNEMOUTH , NORTHUMBERLAND. The life-boat rescued twenty-two people from the Norwegian motor ship Oslo Fjord from which she had previously rescued seventeen. For details see December 1st.