Setting sail on a new voyage: Crew Member Paul Frost of Rhyl aboard the ILB with his bride, Mary Bernadette Morris, after their wedding last autumn. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Rhyl Journal. - View image in PDF
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THOSE who lecture on the Life-boat Service will, we think, be interested in the following account from a school- master at Willesden of a lecture which he gave after distributing the illustrated leaflet which has the chart of Life-boat...
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On the 10th March, 1867, the schooner Squire, of Yar- mouth, was observed making for the shore in a disabled state, a heavy gale blowing from E.N.E. at the time. -The North Briton life-boat was soon launched, and gal- lantly pulled through a...
The Natural Navigator
By Tristan Gooley
Review by David Price
Let this book take you back to navigational basics with some intriguing techniques.
It is...
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Lifeboat tows yacht to safety of Dunkirk The Dover coxswain /assistant mechanic Anthony Hawkins and crew members David Pascall and Rodney Goldsack have been a warded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following an eight-hour...
(See Diagrams on next page.) The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the...
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Thirty one passengers rescued from ferry aground on rocks The Chairman of the the Institution, Michael Vernon, has written to the coxswain and crew of the Lerwick lifeboat after the rescue of 31 passengers, mostly elderly, from a stranded...
On behalf of the Fleet Air Arm Officers' Association a cheque for £200 was presented to Derek Sargent, coxswain of the Weymouth lifeboat.
Standing left to right, Bob Runyeard, crew member, second officer Aly Husk,... - View image in PDF
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NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The s.s. Klondike, of Laurvig, in ballast from Hartlepool for Blyth, stranded in Gambols Bay while a moderate breeze was blowing from S.S.W., with a moderate sea, on the night of the 15th September. The weather was...
APRIL 29TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 4.20 in the afternoon it was reported by fishing boats returning from the fishing grounds that the engines of two other boats had broken down off Southwold. A northnorth- west gale was...