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A Sponsored Marathon Dinghy Race Originally Due to Last for 24 Hours Was Cut to 12 Hours By High Winds the Distance Covered By Entrants In the Race Which Was Org
A sponsored marathon dinghy race, originally due to last for 24 hours, was cut to 12 hours by high winds. The distance covered by entrants in the race, which was organised by Wyboston Sailing Club, ranged from 30 to 40 miles. More than £... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1900
As the years roll on the interest of the people of Great Britain in maritime matters would seem to increase rather than to diminish, and we therefore feel that in drawing the attention of the public, and more especially that part of it...
Category: Articles
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An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
FREE PASSAGE OF AIR into engine room and cabins of a motor boat under way is essential to both machinery and man.
Without it, engines cannot run and the well-being and efficiency of the crew would soon be impaired. It...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 9
BEFORE concluding this subject, a few comparative notes as to cost, size, weight, &c., of the Life-boats under dis- cussion may prove of interest.
Taking the matter of cost first. It is difficult to assign the exact...
Category: Articles
Inshore Lifeboat Launches on Service
ILB launches on service during the months March, April and May, 1974 Aberdovey, Gwynedd April 12 and 28, May 12.
Abersoch, Gwynedd April 7, 13 and 26, May 7 and 17.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 1, May 12 (2)...
Category: Services
The Voyage of the Motor Life-Boat "William Evans" from Cowes to Wexford
THE following are some extracts from the report of the Irish District Inspector on the voyage which the new Wexford Motor Life-boat made to her Station, under her own power, as soon as her trials at Cowes had been...
Category: Articles
Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1903
SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 35) £. s. d. £. i. d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 38 13 2 Dunnett Widows and Orphans Fund 128 11 11 Reardon Samaritan Fund...
Category: Accounts
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30Th June, 1892
ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its important and interesting Annual Blue Book, supplying all sorts of statistics and furnishing every possible information relative to the shipping casualties- and wrecks which take place each year...
Category: Articles
French Medals for Swanage
On the 3ist, December, 1943, the Swanage life-boat rescued three lives from the French nayal launch "Chasseur 5", which had capsized in a heavy sea when escorting a submarine. The men were clinging to her keel. On July...
Category: Articles