This self-righting Life-boat, 38 feet by JO feet, with a 45 h.p. Tylor engine, has been built by the South Australian Harbours Board, from plans supplied by the Institution.
Sbe is stationed at Victor Harbour and is named... - View image in PDF
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PORTHDINLLAEN.—While a strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., with heavy squalls of snow and a heavy sea, on the llth Jan. 1892, the schooner Rose, of Carnarvon, dragged her anchors while lying in Porthdinllaen Bay and went...
CORRESPONDENT vouches for the truth of the following dialogue, which he overheard between two ladies looking at a life-boat poster in a London suburb.
" I do not see why this district should be interested in...
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Life-boats made an extensive search for survivors from the motor cruiser Dor/win which disappeared with little trace off the south west coast in July, 1966. Here the Falmouth life-boat is shown returning with flag at half-mast, with the... - View image in PDF
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Bull Point Lighthouse, Bristol Channel, was opened by Captain David Tibbitts, ssc RN, Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and an ex-officio member of our Committee of Management.
Designed by a Trinity House team... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Theodore Neilsen, of Wells, Norfolk, has been made a member of the Order of the British Empire. The services for which the award has been made have not been published. Coxswain Neilsen, went with the rest of the fishermen of Wells...
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On the 10th October the coastguard at Ballyquinton reported that a small fishing boat, of Portaferry, with one man on board, was in immediate danger inside the bar at Ballyquinton Point. A strong W.N.W.
gale was blowing,...
Ramsgate,' Kent.—At 10 A.M. on the 7th April the motor life-boat Prudential put out for her monthly practice run.
A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat made towards the Brake...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.50 in the morning, on the 17th of Septem- ber, 1950, the I3ritish Railways' berthing master telephoned that a small yacht was drifting' towards the North break- water and making S.O.S. signals...