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Morn

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 10th June, 1939, a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...

D.U.K.W.

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Blackpool, Lancashire - At 1.45 p.m.

on I9th December, 1966, a D.U.K.W.

used to supply the drilling rig Bedford X was reported to be sinking near the drilling rig. There were four men...

Boats (1)

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...

£50 Prize Offered

Date: June 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 372

UNDER the terms of the Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, the objects of which are "the advancement of the science of invention and the scientific and educa- tional interests of the British Mercantile Marine," the Council of the Royal...

Category: Awards

Boville Studioes

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

CAPITAL SHI: H.M.S. WARSP1TE H.M.S. HOOD H.M.S. DUKE OF YORK Print Size 13" x 9" The might and majesty of Britains 'Senior Service' comes alive in this series of superb signed colour prints by Philip Boville. Produced by...

Category: Advertisement

A Fighter Aircraft

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Kirkcudbright. At 10.53 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed by the police that a fighter aircraft had crashed in the vicinity of Blackshaw Flats in the area of Southerness. It had apparently...

Birthday Honours

Date: September 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 417

The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours List published in June - K.B.E.

Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh C. Martell, K.B.E., C.B., who was ex-officio on the Committee of Management of the...

Category: Awards

Arthur Lowe

Date: Spring 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 480

It was with great sorrow that the Institution heard the news of the death on April 15 of Arthur Lowe.

Mr Lowe, who will always be affectionately remembered as 'Captain Mainwaring', had been a loyal and greatly...

Category: Obituaries

Draw Winner

Date: Spring 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 548

Harry Wright has won The Royal Bank of Scotland prize draw for £2,000.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Handy Billy

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 7th August information was received by telephone that the Great Yarmouth fishing boat Handy Billy was in distress about one and a half miles to the northward. A fresh E. by S. breeze was blowing and the...