THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.
The quickest, and therefore the most...
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AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.
E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.
This stated that the...
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MORE THAN TWO TONS of mild steel are forged into the Rother's ballast keel.
Together with such heavy members as the twin diesel engines, set low in the hull, the purpose of the ballast keel is to lower the centre of...
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk March 27 and May 26 Amble, Northumberland March 29 Angle, Dyfed April 30 and May 15 Arranmore, Co. Donegal March 9, Hand 18 Barmouth, Gwynedd May 19 Barra Island, Inverness-shire March 24 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan April...
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Newquay, Cornwall. At 12.20 on 2ist July, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a man had fallen down the cliffs between Treyarnon and Porthcothan.
At 12.25 the IRB launched in light variable airs and slight sea. The man...
NINE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.35 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, a man telephoned to say that cries for help could be heard off Bouldnor and that red flares could be seen. Thirteen minutes later the...
THUBSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—A fierce W.N.W. gale sprang up shortly before midnight on the 6-7th January and increased as the night advanced. At about 1 A.M. the ketch Resolute, of New- castle, which was at anchor in the roads, made signals of...
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Brian Miles CBE looks back on an eventful 1995 1995 proved to be yet another busy and eventful twelve months for everyone involved with the RNLI.
A highlight had to be the 17th Conference of the International Lifeboat...
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Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakerswith a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost 50ft high, the crew of the Lerwick lifeboat had just one...
Cruise 2002 from#49 Page©3 Moy's Cruise 2002 brochure is hot off the press. There are more sailings than ever before, a greater range of destinations, and an additional cruise ship. This expanded programme is our response to the...
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