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Fig I: Bilge Keels Port and Starboard Take Weight of Hull So That Mild Steel Ballast Keel Can Be Slid Into Place
Fig. I: Bilge keels, port and starboard, take weight of hull so that mild steel ballast keel can be slid into place.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alderman A. H. Drinkwater, J.P., of Coventry
By the death on 21st August, at the age of eighty-three, of Alderman A. H.
Drinkwater, three times Mayor of Coventry, an honorary freeman of the city, and a man who devoted himself whole-heartedly to public and philan-...
Category: Obituaries
The Arun Class Margaret Russell Fraser and D Class 248 Squadron Raf
The Arun class Margaret Russell Fraxr and D class 248 Squadron RAF from Calshot assist a capsized trimaran whilst the new QM2 looms in the background, heiself a recent recipient ol RNLI assistance Photo: David Le Clercq. - View image in PDF
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Solskin, of Oslo
Aberdeen.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 9th of November, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Solskin, of Oslo, needed help sixty miles east of Tod Head. At 12.44 the no. 1 life-boat Hilton Briggs put out. There was a heavy...
Fred Park Mbe,
Fred Park MBE, former Torbay station honorary secretary from 1948 until 1975. Mr Park was also a member of the branch committee until 1995 and was made an honorary life governor in 1975.
Category: Obituaries
The Whitby Motor Fishing Coble Jane and Ann
DECEMBER 28TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local Whitby motor fishing coble, Jane and Ann, with a crew of four, was sheltering in Robin Hood’s Bay, Wyke, six miles south of...
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Category: Advertisement
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Ruby and Curlew
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.13 p.m. on 26th October, 1969, news was received that red flares had been sighted off Broadstairs bay. At 7.30 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings in a slight south westerly wind with a...
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
A NEW motor life-boat at New Brighton on the Mersey, Edmund and Mary Robinson, was named by her donor, Mrs. Mary Robinson, of Liverpool, on 4th February, the new motor life- boat at Selsey, Canadian Pacific, the gift of the Canadian Pacific...
Category: Articles
(Below), Built In the Same Simple and Rugged Style to Suit the Surroundings on The
Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs