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Skegness Coxswain Paul Manin Heft) and Honorary Secretary Roland Broughton
Skegness Coxswain Paul Manin Heft) and Honorary Secretary Roland Broughton with the 'chart' of tha beach Regular checks locate soft patches and hollows to aid launching.. - View image in PDF
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H.M. Submarine Tuna and H.M. Examination Vessel Sedulous
NOVEMBER 2ND. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.45 in the morning, the Blyth coastguard reported a ship ashore half a mile south of St. Mary’s Lighthouse. The sea was slight, with a light north-east wind blowing, but there was a...
Eight Fishing Cobles Including The Ethel and The Adventure
JANUARY 8TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 12.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that eight fishing cobles were out. A strong southerly wind was blowing. The sea was very rough and rising. At 12.24 the motor life...
Income and Expenditure.—1st January to 31st December, 1873
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Category: Accounts
The Weather In 1896 from a Life-Boat Point of View
THE past year up to within the last ten days of September was a singularly uneventful one as regards Life-boat work; in fact, on the 22nd September the number of lives rescued by the Life-boats only totalled 65, and had the weather continued...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Iba, to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Two Sailing Dinghies
Swanage, Dorset, At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 14th of May, 1960, two sailing dinghies, one fitted with an outboard motor and each with two people on board, left Swanage Bay for Ringstead Bay near Weymouth. The dinghies belonged to the...
The Propulsion of Life-Boats
IT will doubtless be in the memory of some of our readers that in April, 1886, the General Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION ap- pointed a sub-committee to inquire into the practicability of applying steam to Life-boats....
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