(See Diagrams on next page.) The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the...
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Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 12.55 early on the morning of the 14th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had fired rockets in Largo Bay. At 1.30 the life-boatJames and Ruby Jackson was launched.
The...
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER FOR WHEEL OR TILLER STEERING ON A COMPASS COURSE OSTAR 1976 Single banded transatlantic race Nine chose Tiller Masters— Four finished in first eight I SOLAR AND WIND BATTERY CHARGERS AVAILABLE DAVID JOLLY 3 Little...
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Medallists: (I to r) Helmsmen Keith Horrocks and Philip Denham, Blackpool; Coxswain Robin Castle, Sheerness; Coxswain Derek Sargent, Weymouth; Acting Coxswain Roy Couzens, Acting Assistant Mechanic/Emergency Coxswain Michael Abbott. Crew... - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.25 P.M. a message was received from the naval authorities that a steamer had gone aground in Weymouth Bay. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 10.5 P.M. the motor...
PATIENT TAKEN OFF ISLAND ESf NEAR GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 8.20 on the morning of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Baily lighthouse keeper that a suspected case...
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that the local motor fishing vessel Margaret had left the harbour at four o'clock to attend her lines and was...
IRISH AND GREEK SHIPS ASHORE IN A BLIZZARD Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 7.20 in the morning of February 26th, 1947, the Southend coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Royal Ulsterman, of Belfast, was aground on Arran. She was on her...
William (known as Donald) Wood, second coxswain of the Newburgh lifeboat.
He joined the crew in 1923, becoming second coxswain in 1939 until the closure of the station in 1965..
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FEBRUARY 5TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A motor vessel’s engine had broken down, but the vessel got into the shelter of a headland and did not need help.
- Rewards, £21 2s. 6d..