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Yo-Ho-Ho!

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Yo-ho-ho! Smugglers galore swarmed the countryside around Whimple and in hot pursuit was a determined band of excise men. The barrel-laden smugglers tiptoed their way over hill and down dale in a bid to reach the New Fountain Inn with their... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Barrus

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.

It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...

Category: Advertisement

J.A.P.

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At nine o'clock on the night of the 1st of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler appeared to be aground on Newcombe Sands, and the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at...

Carraig Doun

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of June, 1956, the Dingle Coast Life-saving Service tele- phoned that the fishing boat Carraig Doun, of Dublin, had engine trouble one mile west of Ventry harbour and was being driven...

Fishing Cobles (3)

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

Some of the fishing cobles having gone to sea on the 22nd April in a moderate E.S.E. wind, it was seen about noon that the rough sea and outgoing tide would render their return dangerous. The No. 1 Life-boat Robert and Mary Ellis accord-...

Rfd Inflatables Limited

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

SAFETY RFD are pioneers in the field of inflatable equipment.

They were the first company to introduce automatic inflation — the first to produce canopied liferafts — the first to receive Government Approval for liferafts...

Category: Advertisement

Niki (1)

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

When an unknown vessel reported sighting the masts of a sinking ship near the South Varne buoy on 27th February, 1971, the Dungeness life-boat was unable to launch immediately owing to low water and spring tides. The Dover life-boat Faithful...

Fishing Cobles (1)

Date: February 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 223

On the 4th June when the fishing cobles were at sea it greatly increased, and one boat when j attempting to reach the shore was capsized. Another coble went to the ; assistance of the crew of two men who i had been thrown...

Mr Alfred Woodford (Brooke IOW)

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

Mr Alfred Woodford (Brooke IOW).

Category: Obituaries

Allantide

Date: September 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 405

FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Gal way Bay. At 1.30 on the morning of the 17th April, 1963, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler needed help ten miles south-west of North Aran light. The life-boat...