WE have much pleasure in extracting from the French Life-boat Journal the following interesting account of services performed by the life-boats of the " Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages," during the first quarter of the...
Category: Services
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
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Martin Ruddy, awarded the bronze medal for gallantry and an inscribed wristwatch, was presented with the watch at last October's National Scout Regatta by P. Denham Christie, a vice president of the RNLI.
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Category: Photographs
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...
Category: Articles
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 8.45 A.M. on the 18th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Tern, of London, appeared to be showing signals about one and a half miles E.N.E. from Britannia...
Aground in a storm THE NOTORIOUS North Scroby Sands, off the Norfolk coast, near Great Yarmouth, claimed another victim on the night of November 18/19, 1986, when the rig tender Seaforth Conqueror ran aground there in a south-south-westerly...