LONDON BARGE ADRIFT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1947, the motor life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 put out in a strong west-south-west gale, with a very rough sea, to search for a missing...
BECAUSE of the large demand for the new life-boat ties, which were described in the September number of the Life- boat on page 279, it has been possibleto place a substantial order for future supplies with consequent reductions in price.... - View image in PDF
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ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—As one of the congregations of this town were coming out of church on the evening of the 26th March, the signal gun was fired to summon the crew of the Life-boat Admiral Fitzroy. The schooner Anna, ofRensburgh, had been...
AUGUST 11TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the morning a message was sent to the coxswain that the weather was very bad and that several fishing cobles were out. He went to the station and found that most of the fishing boats...
On the afternoon of July 9 a giant wave washed three boys off Sterlochy Rocks immediately east of Findochty Harbour. Two were pulled to safety by Uwe Brandt, an oil rig worker, who waded more than waist deep into the rough seas. Buckle... - View image in PDF
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Four of the new 48ft. lifeboats for the R.N.L.I. are being built by Camper & Nicholsons Ltd The R.N.L.I. must have the best.
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Rock pool FALMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of St Agnes lifeboat station at 1817 on Friday August 6, 1982, reporting a youth trapped on rocks at Porthtowan swimming pool, about 3'/2 miles south west of St...
Following the reduction in the rate of income tax announced in the Budget, the value of a gift under a deed of covenant is now increased by approximately 63% (instead of 70%). The following table shows the effect of the income tax rates for...
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LAUNCH TO DINGHIES AND WOMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.33 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties near C 16 buoy in the river Mersey. The...