Freighter sinks CROSSMA, the French Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Joburg, informed St Peter Port Radio, Guernsey, at 0104 on Tuesday January 24, 1984, that the Liberian freighter Radiant Med had developed a serious list 13 miles north west...
COMMANDER E. D. DRURY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., the chief inspector of life-boats, will retire, under the age limit, on 31st December, 1938, and will be succeeded as chief inspector b)' Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the...
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IN October, 1936, Literature of the Life-boat, by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president-of the Institution, appeared as a supplement to; The Life-boat, and. a second part appeared a year later. In these two supplements Sir...
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Cargo shifted ON PASSAGE bound from Archangel to the Mediterranean, timber ship Fred Everard developed a list when her deck cargo shifted and, at 0143 on Monday, September 26, sent out an urgency signal PAN. Her position was 61°...
FOURTEEN years since a movement com- menced of an altogether novel character in the life-boat work, and which is without precedent in this or in any other country.
At that period a benevolent lady presented the NATIONAL...
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AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
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Ramsgate, Kent.—On the 7th October, 1939, two vessels were seen to be ashore on Goodwin Sands. One of them was the Admiralty trawler Cape Barracouta. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.45A.M. the motor life-boat...
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
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The bronze medal foi gallantry has been awarded to Coxswain John Cornish, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, and its thanks on vellum to the acting motor mechanic, for rescuing thirteen lives from an Aberdeen trawler which had gone ashore in a Tery...
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On the 7th February, at 12.45 P.M., the Life-boat Mary Isabella put off in a strong W.S.W. gale and a rough sea to the assistance of the Annie Jane, of Feel, which, in beating up for the harbour, carried away her foremast, and signalled for...