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The Line-Throwing Gun: Use In Japan
THE Line-throwing Gun, which was designed for the Institution in 1922 by the B.S.A., and which is now installed on all Motor Life-boats, except those of the lightest type, has been widely adopted in Japan. There it is being used not only by...
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Gularis
Seaham,"? Durham.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a boy drifting seawards in a rubber dinghy off Hoiden, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Witts Allen was launched at 4.55 in a light...
Auguste
ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WlGHT.—The Life-boat Catherine Swift was launched at about 5.30 P.M. on the 15th February, the coxswain, while on the cliff, having observed a large barque strike on the Eastern Ledge at Atherfield and immediately swing...
Naval Auxiliary Tanker "Green Ranger" on Rocks
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Category: Photographs
The S.S. Gairsoppa
MARCH 1ST. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
The S.S. Gairsoppa, of Glasgow, 5,000 tons, with a crew of thirty, had been torpedoed and had sunk. At 10.30 A.M. the life-boat motor-mechanic saw a small boat with survivors on board. A...
Die Manten (1)
The Die Manten afterwards drove ashore some miles to the southward of Montrose, and on the wreck being observed among the breakers on the 25th March the AdmiralFitzroy Life-boat stationed at Anstruther put off and found there was only one...
A Rowing Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.50 in the early morning on the 26th of Feb- ruary, 1950, the coastguard at Southend Pier Head reported that a man and his two boys, who had left Sheerness during the afternoon in a rowing boat to go to Dead...
Dorothea
RAMSGATE. — At 9 P.M. on the 31st January, when blowing hard from the S.W., in answer to signals of distress from the Gull Lightship, the steam-tug Aid, with the Life-boat Bradford in tow, proceeded to the dismasted barque Dorothea, of...
A Tug (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. A tug had been mined, and one of the tug’s crew of five was rescued, badly injured, by the hopper which the tug had had in tow, but nothing else of the tug but wreckage could be found.- Rewards,...
Lavinia
CAISTER.—On the 12th November, at about 11.40 A.M., the brig Lavinia, of Guernsey, bound thence to Sunderland, in ballast, was seen to be between the Scroby and Cross Sands with colours flying union downwards. The Covent Garden Life-boat...