Home made raft TWO YOUTHS, aged 15 and 17 launched a home made raft from the slipway at Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, at about 1510 on Sunday June 10. 1979.
It was nearly high water and a moderate breeze was...
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat which has done duty at Cress- well since 1889 has been replaced by a new boat of the self-righting Ruble type, 34 ft. long by 8 ft. wide, fitted with one water-ballast tank and rowing 10 oars double...
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CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK
Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...
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Word came on 7 April that a dog was in trouble off Dynamite quay, St Ives – and that a man was about to try to rescue it. The tide was rushing out of the estuary, making any such attempt by a swimmer extremely dangerous. When the D class...
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Mr John Skellorn, of the Gravesend Sailing Club, gives a tip about raising money by paperboat racing.
He writes: 'As far as we know, only Belfleet yacht club and ourselves have organised paperboat racing. It started...
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Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 394 New Year Message from the Chairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Letters 400 Prince of Life-boats—a Diary by J. P. Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters'...
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St Ives - Mersey class The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 41) The importance of the naming ceremony for St Ives' Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41) was recognised by the weather, which slipped in a warm,...
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St. Helier, Jersey.—On the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1953, the destroyer H.M.S. Trafalgar arrived off St.
Helier, anchored one mile south-south- west of Elizabeth Castle and landed one hundred and fifty libertymen.<...
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
Swanage, Dorset.—About 5.50 on the afternoon of the 1st of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide at Kimmeridge Ledge, and that a yacht was ashore there. Five minutes later the life-boat Edmund...