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BOYS RESCUED Exmouth, South Devon. At 9.30 a.m.
on 2ist March, 1965, the police at Dawlish informed the honorary secretary that three boys had been cut off by the tide at the Parson & Clark rocks near...
Life-Boatman Overboard
A Rescue at Portrush.
A VIOLENT westerly gale, with gusts at 70 miles an hour, swept across the British Isles on 19th October, 1935, with loss of life and great damage to property ashore and afloat. Twelve life-boats were...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
RESCUE craft of the R.N.L.I. were launched on service more often in 1964 than in any other year since the Institution was founded in 1824. The number of launches by life-boats was 929 and by inshore rescue boats 238. Lives saved by...
Category: Articles
Dark Antagonist
Beaumarls, Anglesey.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1955, the marine superintendent of a firm of boat builders reported that the motor torpedo boat Dark Antagonist, under the firm's control, was moored in Friar's Bay...
S.S. Kollskegg
JULY 21ST. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 6.14 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some ten miles or more to the S.E. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 6.27 P.M., and...
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 2 Distress Signals and Procedures
HAVING decided which are the correct distress signals to be carried according to the size of craft concerned and her particular marine activities (Schermuly's complete range of officially approved marine distress pyrotechnics was...
Category: Articles
St Leonard
On the evening of the 24th June the coxswain was informed that a motor cruiser was in difficulties with her engine broken down, about sixteen miles south of Brid- lington. Some time later the Withern- sea coastguard telephoned that the...
Other Irb Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 39, 49, 62, the following launches on service were made during the months June, July and August, 1969, inclusive: Aberdovey, Merionethshire -...
Category: Services
Value of the Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
IN the 19th Number of this Journal we replied to the various theoretical objections that had been advanced against the selfrighting principle, and demonstrated that the same means which were employed to produce that effect contributed to the...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...