Dutch coaster A DUTCH COASTER Diana V, in distress 101° 74 miles from Spurn Head, was reported to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1400 on December 30, 1978; her cargo of maize had...
AT 6.20 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the honorary secretary of the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, life-boat station, Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, learnt from the coxswain, Patrick Power, that two barges, which had been shelter- ing in...
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A new slipway opens at Ackergill in April 1910. The lifeboat at the ceremony is Co-Operator No 3.. - View image in PDF
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The lifeboat house at Newcastle - Maggy's Leap is about half-a-mile to the left in this photograph. - View image in PDF
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AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
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St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 6.55 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an outboard motor boat with a crew of three engaged in salvage operations on the wreck of the s.s. Nyon, which had...
Bridlington: On Saturday September 26, in east-south-easterly gales gusting to strong gale, force 9, and very rough seas the 37ft Oakley relief lifeboat Mary Joicey. on temporary duly at Bridlington, escorted five trawlers safely into... - View image in PDF
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Conference 155) plank and frame wooden construction. Burdensome sail and displacement-type power yachts are proper candidates.
The only overlap of applicability occurs in the case of fibreglass and aluminium. But even here...
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President— VICE-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S.
Chairman— THOMAS BARING, ESQ., M.P., V.P....
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A MAP JIGSAW PUZZLE Centred On Your Home A traditionally crafted wooden jigsaw, created using the Ordnance Survey superb Landranger * map base, with your own town or village in the centre.
Not only is each of the 250 pieces...
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