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The Norwegian Life-Boat Society. (From the Yorkshire Post, 15th June, 1898.)

Date: August 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 189

IN a dock of the Exhibition grounds at the Fisheries Exhibition at Bergen—it is held in the Nygaard Park, which runs down to a river—there are four Life- boats. They are not to be known for Life-boats at a glance, being shaped and rigged in...

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Saluto

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

An exception- ally heavy gale visited the south-west part of England on the 13th December, and during the height of the gale the Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was called out to go to the help of a sailing- ship in distress in the bay. The...

The Caister Life-Boat Memorial

Date: November 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 296

AT two in the morning on 13th November, 190 , the No. 2 Life-boat at Caister, Norfolk—the Beauchamp—was launched in a whole gale from N.N.E. with thick rain and a very heavy sea in answer to flares of distress, but she was swept back, flung...

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The Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: August 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 197

THE numerous enthusiastic bands of workers on behalf of the Life-boat Satur- day Fund have, throughout the United Kingdom, had exceptional obstacles and difficulties to deal with this year, as the result of the multitudinous appeals, in...

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Fridor

Date: Winter 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 519

Wick lifeboat assists US yacht Wick's Tyne class lifeboat Norman Sali'esini launched at 0045 on 1 September to the casualty Fridor, a sailing yacht from Ohio, which was on passage from the Shetland Islands. Nearing the Caithness...

Chums (1)

Date: Winter 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 539

SPECIAL BULK of Traditional Superior Quality Full cut for Extra Comfort Neck sizes 15" to 20V2" There is a very famous saying "Never look a gift horse in the mouth" AND this is one of gmart Nfln those opportunities that...

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Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments

Date: August 1903

Volume: 18

Issue: 209

By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander B.N.B.

Reprinted from the " Journal of the Royal United Service Institution," by permission.

(Continued From p....

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Two Brave Life-Savers. Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk

Date: February 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 283

Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk.

ON 26th November, 1924, two acts of great individual gallantry were per- formed in rescuing life from vessels stranded near the shore. One was on the rocky coast of...

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Marine Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition

Date: August 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 137

THIS department of the Exhibition is, from the small number of exhibits dis- played in it, hardly calculated to advance the knowledge of the general observer, in the vast changes that have taken place in the form of both fighting and mer-...

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The Necessity of a Standard for Ships' Life-Boats

Date: January 1857

Volume: 03

Issue: 23

' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" IN the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, which, conjointly with the Passengers' Act of 1852, now constitutes the whole law as re- gards all...

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