The first box offish sold at the new £325,000 fish market at Brixham, Devon, was put up for auction for the benefit of the Torbay branch. It was sold three times over and netted £23.96..
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WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.
In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...
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Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1958, the Kildonan coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a motor boat was in difficulties half a mile off Corrie Point. At six o'clock the life-boat James and...
Clovelly, Devon. At 9.20 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a small sailing boat, which had beet under observation since 6.30 but had made no distress signals, was drifting off Clovelly. The...
BECAUSE of the large demand for the new life-boat ties, which were described in the September number of the Life- boat on page 279, it has been possibleto place a substantial order for future supplies with consequent reductions in price.... - View image in PDF
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.11 early on the morning of the 29th of July, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a police report that an 18-feet rowing boat with one man aboard had gone fishing from Boddam but had not...
Nevvhaven, Sussex. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 16th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Seaford bay a quarter of a mile off Buckle Inn. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was...
STEERING CABLE PARTED Rhyl, Flintshire. On 29th May, 1965, the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall had launched for a special exercise with a helicopter when the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Welsh Lady HI spoke to the life-boat's...