CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE AUXILIARIES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This iliustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat.
Many other winches of...
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The longest loaf in the world: Coventry Mercia Round Table, giving effect to an idea by Tom Commander, was responsible in 1975 for a new entry in the Guinness Book of Records, and for the raising of about £4,000 for the... - View image in PDF
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After opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19, HRH the Duke of Kent flew by helicopter to Sennen Cove, Conwall, to name Diana White, Semen's new 37' 6" Rather lifeboat. Nigel Warington Smyth, OBE, a vice-president... - View image in PDF
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ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a...
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935,...
NOVEMBER 11TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At about 11 A.M. the police reported that two men were in the sea off the North Shore Boating Pool. A strong westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat...
FEBRUARY 9TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
At 4.44 in the morning the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that Burnham Radio had picked up a message from the S.S. Coulgorm, of Glasgow, that she was...
People in America have been only less generous than our own people overseas.
One donor, in Texas, has already sent £300 this year, and a lady in California has sent £49 because "she had been thrilled indeed...
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NOVEMBER 28TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At 9.30 A.M. it was learned that the motor fishing vessel Dahlia, of Hull, with a crew of five, had not returned to port since the previous day. A light N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The...