Is proposing in our last Number a further consideration of this Act, we stated that those portions of it which have to do with the prevention of loss of life from shipwreck would naturally arrange themselves under two heads, the one...
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New Brighton's Atlantic class moves in and begins to recover the casualty from the water while County Rescue waits a few lengths downwind.. - View image in PDF
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Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.35 on the night of the 23rd of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard reported a tele- phone message from the Isle of Gigha that the motor yacht Hyskeir II, of Greenock, was aground on a reef to the north of...
When you are representing the RNLI and receiving a cheque from the Derbyshire Association of Sub Aqua Clubs you have to be prepared to sink to certain depths. This is what Shoreline member John Tester (r) did when Peter Townend (I) made the... - View image in PDF
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dinghy. The island of Craigleith (locally known as 'The Craig') can be seen in the background. Having checked that all is well with the dinghy for the good-natured (and very wet) Ted Hill to resume his sailing, Blue Peter III returns... - View image in PDF
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The first of the 1909 silver medal services at Fraserburgh: the lifeboat Anna Maria Lee is manoeuvered in close to the fishing boat Henry and Elizabeth of Nairn before her six remaining crew are pulled to safety.. - View image in PDF
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Following a recent visit to the West Country, Georgette Purches, assistant public relations officer for the RNLI, explains the organisation behind the RAF and Royal Navy helicopter rescue services. She was also in the right place at the...
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On the night of January 11 and 12, 1978, storm force winds blowing right down the North Sea coinciding with some of the highest tides of the winter resulted in severe flooding and damage down the East Coast of England and in the Thames...
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TH« people of a maritime nation like Great Britain should be especially in- terested in any statistics relating to ships and sailors, and such matters are it may be assumed of particular importance to the friends and supporters of the...
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