A perusal of the Annual Wreck Register recently issued for the year commencing on the 1st July, 1875, and ending on the 30th June, 1876, is by no means encou- raging. The wrecks and casualties which it so minutely and accurately chronicles...
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The supply chain team and colleagues at the end of 'day one'. - View image in PDF
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The afternoon ended with tea in the foyer: The Duke of Kent, President, with Commander Ralph Swann, Chairman, talks with bronze medallists Trevor Fryer and Frederick Arkley ofTynemouth.
Photograph by courtesy of Peter... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 13TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.23 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel, under sail, was a quarter of a mile east of Berwick pier. She was trying to enter the harbour, but was unable to do...
On the light self-righting life-boat at Bridlington. The loud-hailer is in front of the mast.. - View image in PDF
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While Fred Williams (I.), appeals office supervisor, spins the drum, Tom O'Connor (centre) draws the winning tickets in the RNLl's second lottery at Poole HQ on March 31. With them are Joyce Pearce, who organises the lottery at HQ,... - View image in PDF
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The women ofStaithes in their traditional bonnets manning the raffle stall during the harbour fete organised by Runswick and Staithes branch. Among the highlights were lifeboat displays and the weekend ended with a thanksgiving service. More... - View image in PDF
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The first of the Atlantic 21s, and the forerunner of all rigid inflatables now widely used for commercial and leisure purposes.
Developed at Atlantic College and using a rigid buoyant floor surrounded by a continuous... - View image in PDF
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Hand over Hand Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFUKD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" The items expended on this work were tar and grease."—Honorary Secretary's...
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ONCE again it becomes our duty to draw the attention of our friends to the sta- tistics published by the Board of Trade, relative to the wrecks occurring on our rock-bound shores. The Register, re- cently laid before the public, furnishes...
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