THE mortar and rocket apparatus around the coasts of the United Kingdom, as stated in an early number of this Journal, is for the most part under the charge of the Coast- guard, who have frequently performed in- valuable services with it,...
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Withernsea East Division HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TEST LIFEBOAT TO LIMITS Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seas John Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal...
Category: Services
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—A new 33- feet 10-oared Life-boat and carriage have been sent here in lieu of the old boat and carriage, which were becoming unfit for further service. The expense of the same was defrayed from the Life-boat Fund...
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BEFORE the invasion of the Romans, York was one of the chief towns of the Brigantes, the most powerful of the British Tribes. By them it was known as Yure- Wic, and even at that time was a place of importance. The parent city is sup- posed...
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THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
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At 10.23 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Margate coastguard reported that a small yacht was ashore on Margate sands about three miles north of the harbour. She had a heavy list and seas were breaking over her. The life-boat...
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TRIALS of the prototype of a new tractor for launching life-boats—a powerful Fowler tractor with a 95 h.p. diesel engine—were held at Aberystwyth in November. Members of the com- mittee of management and officials of the Institution were...
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JANUARY 9TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.30 A.M. a message came from the Hoylake coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to an aeroplane reported down off Formby Point, and at 8.40 the Lytham -...
JANUARY 9TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.30 A.M. a message came from the Hoylake coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to an aeroplane reported down off Formby Point, and at 8.40 the Lytham -...
Meeting of Workers from North and Mid-Wales.
A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers from Branches and Ladies' Life-boat Guilds in North and Mid-Wales was held at Llandudno on the 22nd October, 1930. Delegates from ten...
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