ROCHDALE is built on both banks of the River Roach, whence it derives its name; but the Rochdale of the present day differs widely from that of barely one hundred years ago. Then this quaint old town of industry and traffic occupied a...
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AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....
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GALE SPRINGS UP DURING OCEAN RACE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 22nd June, 1962, the Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club's Outer Dowsing ocean race started with about sixteen yachts taking part. By three o'...
5: Channel Track Of Little Turntable (Left) On Which She Can Be Swung Round To Convenient Position For Mounting On Carriage Tractor Moves Round Carriage. - View image in PDF
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IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
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The Ramsgate Coast- guard telephoned at 11.30 A.M. on the 14th November that the Tongue Light-vessel had reported a ship's Life-boat drifting by in a westerly direction. The Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
Visitors to this year's London Boat Show can take a tour of Severn class lifeboat Darnel L Gibson Photo: Gilbert Hampton. - View image in PDF
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While sheltering in Ballycotton Bay on the morning of 26th March, the steam trawler Macaw, of Milford Haven, was driven ashore on the Black Rocks by a strong S.W. breeze with a rough sea and a heavy ground swell. Information that she was in...
SEAMEN, FISHERMEN and private boat owners all know that whenever they put to sea, together with an awareness of the state of the weather and of what is forecast, the state of the tide is of paramount importance to their...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, seven motor fishing boats left harbour on the ebb tide. The very heavy seas of the previous few days had moderated.
When the tide began to flow the sea got up again...