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Competitors In the York Raft Race from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club Paddle Up the Ouse Under Lendal Bridge Winner of the 43-Strong Home-Fashi
Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed... - View image in PDF
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A Fishing Smack
RYE.—The Life-boat Arthur Frederick was launched at 5 A.M., on the llth January, and proceeded to the assistance of a leaky fishing-smack, which she afterwards conducted safely into the river.
There was a considerable sea...
His Royal Highness Meets Crew Members In the Mumbles Boathouse
His Royal Highness meets crew members in The Mumbles boathouse.. - View image in PDF
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All Severn Class Lifeboats Will Go on Station With the New Pattern Side Keel Fitted
All Severn class lifeboats will go on station with the new pattern side keel fitted. - View image in PDF
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A Box of Arbroath Smokeys for Hrh the Duke of Kent
A box of Arbroath smokeys for HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, from Coxswain Douglas Matthewson. It is at Arbroath that the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed.. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Gear and Its Stowage
AT first thought, the manner of stowing a Life-boat's gear might not appear to be a matter of much, importance: that it is so, however, we shall have little difficulty in showing.
Even on the ample deck of a man-of-...
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May Ann
ST. ANDREW'S.—The sloop May Ann, of and for St. Andrew's, from Shields, with a cargo of coal, arrived off the harbour on the afternoon of the 16th January, and waited for the tide to rise sufficiently high to enable her to enter.<...
The S.S. G. MacLaren
FEBRUARY 8TH. - PORTASKAIG ARGYLLSHIRE. At 4.35 A.M. the Southend coastguard informed the life-boat station that a vessel was in distress south of Colonsay.
A strong southerly wind was blowing, and it was dark and foggy....
Inside the Trent
Trent Lifeboat The Trent class is the smaller of the RNLI's new lifeboat designs which have been designed to replace the Waveney and Arun classes of lifeboat.
There are now 21 Trents in service and their coxswains and...
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Returning from the Rescue
The Motor Life-boat, Greater London, at Southend on-Sea (Essex), returning with five men and a woman, the crews of three barges in distress at the mouth of the Thames, on 23rd November, 1930. The mast of one barge which sank can be seen in... - View image in PDF
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