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FULL RANGE ON DISPLAY IN OUR LONDON SHOWROOM Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses Henry Browne&Son Limited Compass...
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Deck chair weather for the guests at the naming of the Mersey class Sealink Endeavour by HRH The Duke of Kent at Hastings on 21 September. (Photo Tony Denton). - View image in PDF
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(Below) A vintage gift: this 1926, four-seater open tourer Rolls-Royce 20 was generously donated to the RNLI and recently came under the hammer at a Christie's car auction at Beaulieu in Hampshire. In the words of the sale catalogue:... - View image in PDF
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ESCORT FOR YACHT AFTER SHE REFLOATS Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.40 on the evening of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a message received from the police that a local man had taken a woman and two...
Humber, Yorkshire - At 1.50 p.m.
on 30th April, 1966, a motorist told the coxswain superintendent that a small aircraft had crashed into the sea about two miles north of Spurn. There was a gentle south-easterly wind and a...
After 22 Years' Service The Old Plymouth Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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IT has always been a comforting feeling for yachtsmen to know that if they are in trouble off the coasts of the United Kingdom or Ireland and can make a distress signal by visual means or R/T, a life-boat will come to their assistance...
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Fig. 2: Looking forward from the transom down the fast slipway lifeboat's starboard propeller tunnel. Further protection will be given to the propellers by deep bilge keels not yet fitted.. - View image in PDF
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Commander T Holmes RN Late Chief Inspector of Life-Boats. - View image in PDF
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At 1.50 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, a longshore boat was seen burning a red flare off Pakefield beach, two miles north of Lowestoft harbour entrance. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings ten minutes later in a fresh...