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The Cape Horner’s Club: Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World’s Most Feared Cape by Adrian Flanagan

IN our last Number we published some remarks on the management of boats in a surf and broken water, embodying the substance of inquiries made on various parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom, together with our own comments on the same...

UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS, 38 & 39 VICTORIA, CAP. 88.) THE Act -which was passed at the end of last Session for the better security of ships and sailors, although only to con- tinue in force for one year, is of consider- able importance, as...

Dummies from Aeroplanes: New Regulations.

IN the last issue of The Lifeboat two false alarms were recorded. In each case a parachute, with a dummy attached, had been dropped into the sea by an aeroplane, and the dummy was...

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ISLES OF SCILLY MINCARLO GUEST HOUSE -...

THERE were 272 stations embraced in the Life-saving Establishment of the United States at the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1902. Of this number 195 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the...

VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.

Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.

Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...

Fig. 1: Section 6, looking aft at main watertight bulkhead from inside engine room.

help keep the bilges dry and sound, must be installed. As extra protection against dry rot, the whole of the inside of the skin and all...