LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DECEMBER 20TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.5 in the afternoon the Ramsey coastguard reported that they had received information of a vessel in distress. Ten minutes later the position was given as Castletown Bay, and five minutes...
The S.S. Strathbeg
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Signals were heard on the morning of the 10th February proceeding evidently from a vessel on the northern part of the island. The weather was thick, snow was falling, the wind was blowing from N.E. a moderate...
Barendrecht
JANUARY 16TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 11.15 on the night of the 15th of January the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Steenhead. She was the Dutch tanker Barendrecht, a vessel of several thousand tons, bound for the Clyde....
Self-Devotedness of Sailors
SELF-DEVOTEDNESS OF SAILORS.
THERE is no part of the task which in con- ducting this publication we have imposed on ourselves, from which we anticipate more satisfaction than the relation of acts of self- ilevotion and...
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Evett Sailwear Ltd
FOR MARITIME ORGANISATIONS YACHTSMEN AND HARD WEAR our FOUL WEATHER GARMENTS are BRITISH DESIGNED BRITISH MADE from BRITISH MATERIALS and Manufactured in our own Factory EVETT SAILWEAR LTD.
TIMBER HALL WORKS THE SQUARE...
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Evett Sailwear Limited
RNLI INSHORE CREWS USE our FOUL WEATHER GARMENTS BRITISH DESIGNED BRITISH MADE from BRITISH MATERIALS and Manufactured in our own Factory EVETT SAILWEAR LTD.
TIMBER HALL WORKS THE SQUARE CATERHAM, SURREY, CR3 6QA Tel:...
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DEC. 14TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. Ship’s YORKboats had been reported adrift, but nothing was found except large trunks of timber.
Rewards : Clacton-on-Sea, £8 13s....
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
Wherever you sail you'll find Brookes & Gatehouse instruments A full complement of Brookes and Gatehouse units comprises: HERON D.F. aerial. HOMER receiver and short-wave converter. HECTA echo sounder. HARRIER combined log and...
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that the Rye police had reported that a boy swimming off Camber was drifting out to sea. At 5.15 the life-boat Charles Cooper...