Uphill all the Way by Alan Sears published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £14.99 ISBN 0-7136-4876-7 Completing a 30,000-mile race round the world and against the prevailing winds must bring a great feeling of personal satisfaction to those...
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AGM and Open Days Firstly, thanks to all governors who attended the AGM in May and particularly those who visited the membership stand.
Many of those attending the AGM and the annual presentation of awards during the...
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WE deeply regret to have to record the death, during March, of two old and very valued friends of the Institution, Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., J.P., F.R.G.S., Deputy-] Master of the Trinity House, and...
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YACHT TOWED TO SAFETY AT 4.45 p.m. on 20th November, 1971, information was received that the yacht Solstice was firing red flares in a position four miles west of Les Hanois light, Guernsey, C.I. Fifteen minutes later the St. Peter Port life...
The rescue of 62 lives from the City of Glasgow on the night of 19th October, 1825, when Hillary himself was washed overboard, and had his chest crushed and six ribs broken. This was one of three services for each of which he was awarded the... - View image in PDF
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20th August. A Dart- mouth boat was thought to be missing, but was found to have been moored at Kingswear, on the other side of the river, without the knowledge of the owner.—Rewards, £11 15s. 6d..
Coxswain William Watts Williams at the Annual Meeting. - View image in PDF
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'Hattersley' valves sail the wide world over, serving under many flags in the universal cause of safety at sea.
the with the Hattersley Newman Mender Ltd Ormskirk, Lancashire.
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Galway Bay.-On 25th October, 1967, the coxswain and crew boarded the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, under very severe weather conditions, to go to the help of the motor vessel Razani for which special awards were granted. A full account of...
MEDAL FOR LYTHAM COXSWAIN On the 21st July. 1962, the Lytham- St.-Anne's life-boat towed the motor ketch Lone Seeker, which had four people aboard, from a dangerous position. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 346,...