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Chichester Yacht Basin
a rather nice marina The Chichester Yacht Basin is currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment programme, which means by April 1989, well have created an additional 120 berths.
So if you're quick to apply, you could...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Ayrshire Coast, of Liverpool
NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...
Life-Boat Services
THE accompanying illustration of one of the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION proceeding off to a wreck, is from an exquisite picture painted by Mr. SAMUEL WALTERS, an eminent marine artist of Bootle, near Liverpool. He was...
Category: Services
Time
In a strong N. wind on the 18th July the hull of a new steamer—the Time, built for Melbourne—was being towed from the shipbuilder's yard to West Hartlepool in order to have her engines fitted. The hawsers carried away and the Time was...
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies: A Correction
AN article was published in the last number of The Life-boat (Autumn, 1950) on the great danger of rubber dinghies, and a list was given of life-boats launched to their help in the summer of 1950. There were ten launches and eighteen lives...
Category: Articles
Flower of Portsoy
Shortly after 7 P.M. on the 31st August a telephone message was received, stating that the schooner Flower of Portsoy, of Plymouth, was aground on the Platter Rocks, in Holyhead Bay.
The Cemlyn Life-boat, Anne Collin, was...
Inaugural Ceremonies: Isle of Man
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the New Ramsey Motor Life-boat took place on 16th July. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Claude Hill, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Pre- sident of the Branch, presented the Life-boat to the Branch, and Lady Hill named her.
Category: Inaugurations
An Aeroplane (97)
AUGUST 20TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
Men working in a harvest field had reported that they had seen an aeroplane crashing into the sea, but nothing was found and no information of a missing aeroplane could be obtained. -...
Hilda, Premier, Albatross, B.S Colling, Sceptre, Hyperion
The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 5th December, as a gale had sprung up from the N.E., and several local fishing boats were at sea.
A heavy sea was running, and heavy rain falling. The life...
An American Fortress Aeroplane (2)
MARCH 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. While the lifeboat was out on a trial run an American Fortress aeroplane was seen to crash, but the life-boat found no survivors. - Rewards, £12 4s. 6d..