Harwich lifeboats called to power boat on fire Both of Harwich's lifeboats, the Waveney class John Fison and the Atlantic 21 British Diver II, were called to an incident on the River Orwell on 18 March 1990.A moored power boat had burst...
THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...
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To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
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THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
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IN our last issue we gave a brief description of the ordinary ship's log, -which has been in use during the last 275 years, and of patent logs also in use for the last half century. In continuation of that article, we have now to...
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THE important and interesting question as to whether or not our Coast Lights should be exhibited free of charge to the shipping of all .nations has been recently discussed in the House of Commons. It is an important question, seeing that the...
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WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....
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AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 6th February the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of prizes won in the Life-boat Essay Competi- tion in London (consisting of schools in the London County...
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Mrs H. Cawwood, souvenir secretary of Coventry Ladies'guild from 1973 to 1984 and committee member from 1965. She was awarded a silver badge in 1980..
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