The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
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APRIL 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 2.40 in the afternoon a message was received from Shoebury garrison that seven men, engaged on demolition work, were stranded on the boom defence a mile-and-ahalf out to sea and...
On the after- noon of 7th November information that two anglers in a small boat were in dis- tress about one and a half miles ofi Hove was received by the Coastguard from the Hove Deep Sea Anglers' Club, to whom the boat and the men be-...
NOVEMBER 22ND. - WICKLOW. At 10 in the morning distress signals were made by the motor schooner Windermere, of Arklow, a mile N.N.E. of Wicklow pier, and the motor life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched immediately. A strong S.S.E. gale was...
SHORELINE membership continues to increase steadily and insignia sales continue their upward trend. It is encouraging to find several boats in some of the larger harbours flying Shoreline flags, and to pass the occasional car on the road...
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CLACTON-ON-SEA.—While a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 24th January, a schooner was observed stranded on the Middle Spit Sands. The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 5.15 P.M. and sailed to the...
The Wexford Station—As It Was. - View image in PDF
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Among places overseas from which the Institution has had gifts recently, are King Williams Town (South Africa), Northern Rhodesia, Kenya, New Zealand, Basutoland, Melbourne, Texas, Guatemala, New York and Buenos Aires..
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The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.
COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...
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THE first Benson and Hedges Fair Isle International Yacht Race in aid of the R.N.L.I, started at 11.00 hours on 2nd September, six cables north of the entrance to Granton harbour on the Firth of Forth. The race was the first international...
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