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A Sailing Boat (1)
APRIL 5TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. A small sailing boat was out in rough weather, but did not need help.-Rewards, £4 10s. 6d..
Membership News
AGM and Open Days Firstly, thanks to all governors who attended the AGM in May and particularly those who visited the membership stand.
Many of those attending the AGM and the annual presentation of awards during the...
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The S.S. Esbo
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...
The National Maritime Historical Society
Oil the 125th Anniversary of the most legendary clipper ship of all time...
The National Maritime Historical Society Sponsors THE CUTTY SARK ANNIVERSARY MARITIME HOURGLASS She earned Listing fame .is the greyhound of the...
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The Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
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The S.S. Downshire
Newcastle, Co. Down.—On the 8th of December, 1954, the S.S. Downshire, of Belfast, a collier bound for Dundrum from Garston, ran hard ashore on the sands three quarters of a mile west of Dundrum harbour entrance, but the life-boat was not...
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Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of December, 1954, the doctor at Kilronan asked if the life-boat would take an eighty- three-year-old man in urgent need of surgical treatment from Inishmaine Island to the mainland...
Alice
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.41 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a cargo vessel was listing heavily near Gull Stream Buoy. At 1.53 the life- boat Greater London, Civil Service No.
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Glorfindel II
Yacht crew landed ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1976, at 1720 Eyemouth Coastguard informed the deputy launching authority of St Abbs ILB station that the yacht Glorfindel II, moored in St Abbs outer harbour, was in danger of being swamped. A...