— At 5.30 P.M. on 25th September it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that the little fishing smack Dobell, of Carnarvon, was out in Barmouth Bay and was making for port, the weather having suddenly become squally and boisterous, and...
The Deputy Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., and the Secretary, Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., attended the British Legion 50th anniversary conference at the Royal Albert Hall, London, at the end of May when for the...
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* You'll never do it,' they said. ' You're mad . . .' but Dickon Sandbach and Nick Bale, undeterred, brought to reality their dream: a charity cycle ride from Land's End to John O'Groats. For two years they... - View image in PDF
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"Oh, many a bark, to that breast grappled fast, Has gone down to the fearful and fathomless grave; Again, crash'd together the keel and the mast, To je seen tost aloft in the glee of the wave1." SCHILLER L 2.
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An eerie sensation. With canvas screens over all her wheelhouse windows The Princess Hoyal makes her way out to sea from Poole Harbour for blind pilotage exercises. Every aid to navigation is brought into use in the drill.. - View image in PDF
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.26 on the morning of the 7th of March, 1954, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Middle Shoebury Sands, but there were no distress signals. The weather deteriorated during the morn- ing, and at 10.12...
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will have a reproduction on it in colours of the picture above. It is an old painting, recently presented to the Institution, of Grace...
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At about 11 A.M. on 28th February the Hoylake Coastguard reported that a small motor boat was at anchor or aground near Spencers Spit, and that they were keep- ing her under observation. Later they reported that the boat had disappeared, and...
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Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 4.7 in the after- noon, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a report received from a holiday camp at Towyn that three men and boys in a rubber dinghy needed help off the camp. At 4.30 the life-boat...