Fig, 1: Compressed air bottle, with pneumatic valve box at end, is lowered on to its mounting cradles by British Hovercraft conversion crew, Brian Augustus (left) and Leslie Harris.
Note new square stretcher hatch into deck... - View image in PDF
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JUNE 22ND. - MONTROSE, ANGUS. At 9.40 AM. a strong N.E. wind was blowing, the sea was rough and the tide ebbing. It was evident that two motor fishing boats, Rosa and Widgeon, which were out would have great difficulty in crossing the bar...
On the morning of the 14th Novem- ber the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that the steam trawler Georgette, of Grimsby, was ashore on Outer Bank, about three miles north of Winterton. She was bound home from the fishing grounds with a...
RICHARD ARMSTRONG Vent Grace Darling Maid and Myth A mariner by training, Mr. Armstrong presents Grace as a living girl, already a legend in her lifetime. His account of the wreck of the Forfarshire is entirely...
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Mr. Neil Speed, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Moira, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of 10 people from the motor yacht Quesada on the night of 22nd/23rd May,...
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Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 6th March, it was reported that a vessel about a mile to the north of the harbour was making signals of distress. There was a strong S.S.E. gale at the time and the sea was very heavy. With great promptness the...
Early in the morning of 7th November, 1969, the nightwatchman at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., Mr. Kazimierz Jastrzebski, who is 55, struggled with a gunman who was accompanied by four other men. One of the raiders fired a shot...
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Main picture: The Dunmore East lifeboat St Patrick, built in 1974.. - View image in PDF
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ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was flooding. Both main bilge and...
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By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
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