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New Inventions

Date: January 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 15

CUNNINGHAM'S Patent Mode of reefing Topsails from the Deck.—Most persons, even those who are not sailors by profession, are aware that the operation of reefing topsails is one of the most important on board a ship. By its means the...

Category: Articles

The Empress of the French

Date: October 1867

Volume: 06

Issue: 66

BUT a few days since the British public were startled by the intelligence that the Empress of the French and her royal son, the Prince Imperial, had nearly lost their lives by drowning, on the coast of France.

We will...

Category: Articles

The Bahamian Bulk Cargo Vessel Sumnia

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Three rescued in hurricane SILVER MEDAL IN THE EARLY HOURS of Friday, October 16, 1987, hurricane force south-southwesterly winds of force 16-17, gusting at times to more than 100 knots, left a trail of destruction along the south and...

Great Rail Journeys

Date: Spring 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 576

mvitmim WKiRumm Eastern & Oriental Express - Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore by train — Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialists on this fascinating two-week tour of southeast Asia.

A friendly and...

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A Shipwreck. The Life-Boat Service

Date: August 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 85

WE have extracted the following account of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL.

The incidents...

Category: Articles

Classified

Date: Autumn 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 582

Classified Health Optical Accessories Monk Optics Binocular Specialists Two Eyes Arc Better Than One This unique 90mm or 110mm scope with twin eyepieces is a major breakthrough in high powered observation. It is now possible to observe...

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Better than fiction

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Neil Oliver’s fascination with daring deeds has led him to champion the RNLI – and he’s been in deep water himself a few times, as he tells Rory Stamp

With his rich Scots accent and long black hair, broadcaster, writer and...

Category: Articles

A Catamaran (1)

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

Walmer, Kent. At 4 p.m. on 2oth July, 1965, the honorary secretary saw a catamaran capsize one mile offshore from the life-boathouse. At 4.10 p.m. the IRB launched in a southerly breeze and corresponding sea. The catamaran, whose crew of two...

Letter to the Editor

Date: June 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 408

SIR - I am a life-boat enthusiast and as such I am particularly interested in boats and equipment. As there must be others like myself, would it be possible to form a R.N.L.I. Enthusiasts' Club ? May I, through this journal, ask what...

Category: Correspondence

Amstalkirk and Algorab

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

NO V . 2 5 T H . - WALMER, KENT. The life-boat went out to the help of the Dutch steamer Amstalkirk in a full south-west gale, with very rough seas and dense rain. She was then told to go to another Dutch steamer, the Algorab, of Rotterdam,...