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
During the International Boat Show at Earls Court, University Marine Ltd., in co-operation with the R.N.L.I. Depot, put on this inshore life-boat display outside the London International Hotel, Kensington.
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Category: Photographs
When a life-boat bridge tournament was held recently in a Dublin hotel, several supporters extended the scope of it to neighbouring counties by asking friends to play at tables in their houses.
The players at these tables...
Category: Donations
THE Italian Government lias recog- nised the gallantry of the Life-boat Crew at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, and of the others who took part in the rescue of the crew of the Italian steamer Iscibo on 27th October, 1927, by the award of...
Category: Awards
INSPIRED BY CLASSIC ENCJLISH LANTERN CLOCKS OF THE 1600s, THE NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPONSORS THE INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL CLOCK A Barometer, Thermometer, Compass and Clock - in a Superb Re-creation of an Antique Ship's...
Category: Advertisement
WE have pleasure in introducing to our readers the following extracts from a beautiful poem entitled " The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound," by the well-known Author of " Ruins of Many Lands," " Pleasure,"...
Category: Poetry
MR. W. H. RICHARDS, previously second coxswain at the former Lyn- mouth life-boat station, died in a London hospital on the ist December, 1963, at the age of 82.
He was the last survivor of the crew which, in January 1899...
Category: Obituaries
Ballyglass fills the gap in Ireland's cover The Institution will have an entirely new lifeboat station in operation on the northwest coast of the Republic of Ireland this autumn.
The station, at Ballyglass Co. Mayo will...
Category: Articles
Two new motor life-boats on the coast of Northumberland have been named this year, at Cullercoats and Boulmer.
Cullercoats.
A new motor life-boat was stationed at Cullercoats this year, replacing a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
St. Helier, Jersey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1961, the harbour office informed the honor- ary secretary that the motor vessel Heron had struck the Paternoster Reef and was sinking fast. A moderate south-south-westerly...