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Rangor

Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 1.4 a.m. on iyth January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had fired a warning rocket and that a fishing vessel which had gone near the Ness of Sound had stopped and burnt a...

Maritime Book Society (Readers Union)

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

A Startling Compendium of Facts, Feats and Figures THE COUNTRY LIFE BOOK OF NAUTICAL TERMS UNDER SAIL An illustrated guide to the language of the great sailing ships and the men aboard them Fascinating, unusual, and always with a sound...

Category: Advertisement

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: February 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 235

SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

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PRESIDENT—His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.

Chairman— COLONEL...

Category: Advertisement

A Motor Boat and Six Yachts

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the Llandudno coastguard reported that a small motor boat, which had six yachts in tow, was making no...

Sailing Dinghy

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

THREE MEN RESCUED AFTER DINGHY CAPSIZES Douglas, Isle of Man. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 24th May, 1962, the police informed the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Douglas Bay about a quarter of a mile off...

Duet

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

WaltonandFrinton, Essex.—About 7.25 on the night of the 8th of August1951, the coastguard telephoned that the Cork Lightvessel had reported a yacht aground on the Cork Sands. At 7.50 the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched in a smooth sea and a...

A Hundred Years Ago

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

WE believe that a life-belt, for an adult person of average size, ought to have, at the least, buoyant power equal to 20 Ibs., and as much more as can conveniently be obtained.

Having decided on the amount of buoyancy, the...

Category: Articles

Naming Ceremony at Gourdon

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

THE naming ceremony of the motor life-boat for Gourdon, Kin- cardineshire, took place on 23rd May.

The life-boat is a Scottish gift, for it has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. Margaret H. Dawson, of Bridge of...

Category: Inaugurations

Constellation Aircraft Disaster

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

ON the 14th of August, 1958, a disastrous accident occurred when a K.L.M.

Constellation aircraft crashed in the Atlantic more than 80 miles from the west-coast of Ireland. Ninety-nine people lost their lives. Life-boats...

Category: Services

May

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

Launches 31 Lives rescued 16 MAY 2ND. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.

During the evening the French fishing vessel L’Appel-de-Lemar, while on passage from Newlyn to Fleetwood, with a crew of five, grounded on St. Bernard’s Wharf...

Category: Services