EQUIP YOURSELF FOR ANY VOYAGE '. . . every point of sailing under all rigs and in all weathers, meteorology, navigation and boat handling it should equip the yachtsman mentally and materially for any kind of voyage.' Sea Breezes '...
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THIRTY-EIGHT life-boatmen, from English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh stations were invited to attend the annual meeting in London, on 26th April, to receive medals and vellums awarded to them for gallantry during the previous year. This is the...
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Sea Rhine founders I would like to thank you and the crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat for your help when you came to the assistance of Sea Rhine off Lowestoft on Wednesday morning, February 11.
It was a...
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ABOUT 6.30 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, a party of four people and a dog put to sea from Axmouth harbour, near Seaton, in a 12-foot 6-inch motor boat driven by a 5 horse-power out- board engine. After about an hour the man in...
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DINARD and St. Malo provided the setting for the tenth international life-boat conference, which was held from 5~8th June, 1967. This was the second occasion on which the French have acted as hosts, the earlier occasion being that of the...
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A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
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Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.40 in the afternoon of the 1st of April 1952, the Mablethorpe coastguard tele- phoned that a small ship lying at anchor three and a half miles east- north-east of Mablethorpe appeared to be flying a distress signal,...
ON the afternoon of 16th September, 1962, Mr. Kenneth Johnson and his brother, Mr. Frank Johnson, with six of their children aged between two and twelve, went on board Mr. Kenneth Johnson's cabin cruiser, which was one of the Dolphin...
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WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
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