I AM sure that readers who are not attracted by a tale of perils at sea in open boats will find much to surprise and hearten them in General Seely's " Launch ! " It is an animating book, for it has implications which involve...
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0 A year ago I said: 'Now we stand on the threshold of the 70's, which promise to be years of new development and greater challenges.' The first challenge was not long in coming, for on 21st January, 1970, the Fraserburgh...
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The four Tenby lifeboatmen to receive vellums: (I to r) Crew Member Robert James, Second Coxswain John John, Crew Member Roy Young and Helmsman Dennis Young. - View image in PDF
photograph hy courtesy of Gareth Davics. - View image in PDF
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THE rigid inflatable Psychedelic Surfer gained a certain amount of publicity in the Round Britain Power Boat race and was, I hear, looked at by some of our IRB crews at the various stopping points around the coast.
When I...
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Aberdeen, Grampian Relief 52ft Arun ON 1103: Apr 25 D class: Apr 7 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd /Wante:23: Apr 16,19,22, May 6, 8,14,28 and 29 Aberystwyth, Dyfed Atlantic 75: Apr 21 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 12/M Mersey ON 1193: Mar 4 and May 22 D...
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CALLS BY CRUISER Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.48 p.m.
on 27th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a flashing light and calls for help had been seen and heard 400 yards off No. 4 Martello Tower by...
Miss Heather ('Mickie') Allen with the carved shield presented to her on behalf of Cowes Base by boat builder Steve Simmonds at the opening of The Allen Centre.. - View image in PDF
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LIFE-BOATS have already been seen on the Thames. In the Pageant of the Sea Services of the War, which was held on the Thames, in 1919, with the King in his Royal Barge at the head, two Life-boats took part, the steam Life-boat James Stevens...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: Relief 44' Waveney lifeboat 44-001 on temporary duty at Gorleston returning from service to the Danish vessel Baltic, which had developed a heavy list, on April 8. Seven seamen, picked up by the tug Vanguard... - View image in PDF
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(continued from page 51} shipping industry could well appreciate the financial problems of the RNLI and the hard decisions which it has had to face. The shipping industry knows all about inflation and the desperately serious problems which...
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