Selsey crew members prepare to scrub the poop deck. - View image in PDF
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A WOMAN in Essex has written: "Will you please accept the cuttings of my hair and sell it for your funds. I understand real hair is urgently needed." The Institution gratefully accepted the hair, and has sold it for fifteen...
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The Life-boat Sarah Austin was called out shortly after 8 A.M. on the 27th December, the Merchant Fleet Auxiliary Albatross having stranded near Holborn Head.
When the Life-boat reached the vessel it was found that it was...
Mabel E. Holland in the ice during her four-year round-the-world voyage.. - View image in PDF
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IT is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, G.O.B., which took place, at the age of 83, at Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, on Wednesday, Sep- tember 18th.
Sir Richard Hamilton...
Category: Obituaries
IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.
Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...
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Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.8 P.M. on the 1st November, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor sprat boat was in distress off Pakefield.
She was the Terry, of Lowestoft, homeward bound laden with sprats and carrying a crew...
Again, on the 5th Nov., the schooner Mary Grace, of Whitstable, went on the South Cross Sand, during a strong wind from the S.W. and in a heavy sea. As the tide made, the sea broke over her, and she filled with water. The large Life- boat...
On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded, after some difficulty,...
As recorded in The Life-boat for last September, the Honorary Secretary of the Cobham (Surrey) Branch, made a rug in the shape and colours of the Institution's flag for an official of the Sudan Government Dockyard at Khartoum, giving the...
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