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Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 1 Choosing the Right Distress Signals

Date: January 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 438

WITH the present boom in the yachting and boating industry rising steadily each year, as more and more people seek and enjoy pleasurable pastimes afloat, there is also a growing anxiety from the marine rescue associations generally about the...

Category: Articles

New Ways of Raising Money

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

Sponsored walks are common enough these days but the 15th Long Eaton Venture Scout unit, in Nottinghamshire, decided to bring some water into the proceedings—by holding a sponsored row on 5th July, 1969. The proceeds were divided between the...

Category: Donations

Books

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

The Cromer Lifeboats by Bob Malster and Peter Stibbons (Poppyland Publishing), available from Cromer RNLI honorary secretary, 33 Hillside, Cromer, Norfolk, for £1.20 plus 25p post and packing, is the third edition of booklets about the...

Category: Articles

Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition for Elementary Schools

Date: November 1918

Volume: 23

Issue: 266

IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of .the: Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout...

Category: Advertisement

The New 47-Feet Life-Boat

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

A NEW 47-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of her kind, completed her trials during the summer of 1955. She has now been sent to her station at Thurso, Caithness-shire.

The new life-boat is a development of the 46-feet...

Category: Articles

Rescue from Coaster With Forty-Five Degree List

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

At 7.30 on the morning of the 5th of November, 1957, the honorary secretary of the New Brighton station, Captain G. Ayre, learnt from the Formby coastguard that the /. B. Kee, a coaster of 211 tons, of Castletown, Tsle of Man, was in...

Category: Services

Best Efforts By F R Davies

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

HOW WOULD YOU react when confronted with three seven-year-old boys who had seen, say, a model you had built 15 years ago, and who wanted to build their own? Would you tell them that, because of inflation, it would cost three times as much...

Category: Articles

The Fishery Patrol Vessel Switha (1)

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...

Saltaire

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER OCT. 10TH.- THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 4.20 in the morning the watchman saw a vessel heading for the beach. He gave the alarm and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 4.55. A gale had been...

Ireland, of Liverpool

Date: November 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 90

On the i afternoon of the 5th January, information reached this place that a large ship, with her foremast gone, was in distress 'in Car- digan Bay, about eight miles to the south- ward of Pencilan. The wind was blowing very strong at...