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CADABRA: Sandhursts' floating showroom

Date: Winter 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 447

Throughout 1973 the motor yacht Cadabra toured the coasts of Great Britain on a sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd, a firm of stationers.

At the end of the tour in January, Captain Nigel Dixon, RN, Director of the...

Category: Articles

Great Rail Journeys

Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

mvitmim WKiRumm Eastern & Oriental Express - Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore by train — Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialists on this fascinating two-week tour of southeast Asia.

A friendly and...

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Maritime Book Society

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

TflLL3HIP5 BUILD YOUR OWN MARITIME LIBRARY Whether you want to sail vicariously with Clare Francis today or Joshua Slocum last century, should you enjoy learning knots by the fireside or boning up on engines (to be ready for fitting-out or...

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Triton

Date: August 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 137

On the 19th of January, at 9 A.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, was launched to the assistance of the brig Triton, of Svelvig—bound from Memel to France with oak boards—which was in a dangerous position near the Scroby Sands, during a N...

Little Ships

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

This year saw the 70th anniversary of the mass evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk during the Second World War. On 30 May 1940, the RNLI received a call from the UK Ministry of Shipping, asking for as many lifeboats as possible to be...

Category: Articles

R.N.L.I. Sends Irbs to Pakistan Disaster

Date: January 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 434

It took the R.N.L.I, just 36 hours to find 20 inshore rescue boats with engines and spares for an airlift from Stansted, Essex, to Dacca to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The two volunteers were Lieutenant David Stogdon... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

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Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

PATIENT At ii a.m. on 25th April, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a man with a serious haemorrhage had to be brought to the mainland for hospital treatment. The patient was embarked on the life-boat, Mabel Marion...

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work

Date: May 1909

Volume: 20

Issue: 232

(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.

The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...

Category: Articles

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Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

HUNGER CALL At 1.15 p.m. on 2ist December, 1964, the chairman of the branch was asked by the manager of Radio Invicta, a wireless transmitting station on Redsand Towers, if the life-boat would take food to the radio station as no other...

Brothers

Date: February 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 247

The steam drifter Brothers, of Lowestoft, stranded on the north part of Corton Sands when bound for the fishing grounds on the £0th May. A fresh breeze was blowing from S.E. with a moderate sea and the weather was hazy. The Coastguard...