I. By JOAN PATUICIA ROSE JEFFERIS (13), The Circus Church School, Portsmouth, Hants Why I should like to be a Life-boatman.
THERE are many noble callings in life in which workers have lit lamps of self-sacrifice,...
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The Life- boat, Ulinor Roget, was launched at 4.30 A.M. on the 9th February, in re- sponse to signals from the s.s. Peruuiana, of West Hartlepool.
On arrival at the vessel, it transpired that the rudder had been damaged,...
Springing Spaniels Anyone who has been on speaking terms with a very lively Springer Spaniel will hardly be surprised that a significant number of dog-and-lifeboat incidents seem to involve the breed... Including the one which made the...
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SURVEY VESSEL Cromer, Norfolk. At 9.45 on the evening of the 2nd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that H.M.S. Scott, one of the survey vessels of the Royal Navy, had requested a doctor and ambulance to...
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Penwhere? Even the most enthusiastic lifeboat supporter would have difficulty in identifying this lifeboat station.
Wales? Probably, but even a gazetteer or chart won't be much help in locating it.
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APRIL 6TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
A vessel had been reported in distress but after the life-boat had left it was learnt that the report was incorrect, and that an aeroplane was down in the sea. But nothing was found. -...
You should raise your hat to Mrs. Monnie Clements—but if you haven't got one, she will be only too pleased to provide it. A few months ago Mrs.
Clements, secretary of the Shanklin branch of the Royal National Lifeboat...
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As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...
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THE Institution has received, under the will of a civil servant of London, a legacy of ten guineas. The will was made in 1916, but the legacy to the Institution was contained in a codicil dated 7th December, 1929. That day was the height...
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