Willy de Roos' yacht Williwawa Faraday Base, Antarctica in 1983. During her passage, she was tested to the limit, breaking through solid ice up to 18 inches thick, passing a Japanese boat that had been frozen in the previous season.... - View image in PDF
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WITHIN the last few weeks we have received from the Board of Trade their annual Blue Book, furnishing in a tho- roughly comprehensive and intelligible form very full and detailed statistics of the shipping casualties "on or near"...
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Scarborough Evening News man on the spot on 7th August was chief photographer Jay Mason—he was taking pictures of Filey life-boat's demonstration launch when a real rescue came up. The launch, for Filey life-boat flag day, involved the... - View image in PDF
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ALL GROWN UP
Back in 2012, photographer Nigel Millard took a picture of the children of Tobermory’s crew trying on their parents’ kit. Almost 5 years later, the station recreated the iconic shot. Alexander Anderson (second...
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SEVERE At 9 a.m. on loth April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Golden Hope was at sea and that conditions in the harbour approaches were very severe, with visibility almost nil. The life-boat Mary Ann...
Annual Meetings: Station Branches.
BLACKPOOL (LANCASHIRE).—On 1st July, Councillor T. P. Fletcher, J.P., Deputy-Mayor, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £371 had been col-...
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Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...
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Torbay, Devon. — During a severe N.W. gale on the morning of the 23rd January, 1939, the auxiliary ketch St.
Helens, of London, broke from her moorings in Brixham Outer Harbour and drove ashore on the beach near the...
Some old photos can lead charmed lives - and these were some of the lucky ones which survived by pure chance, or rather by a chain of coincidences.
How did they arrive here? Well: if you treat your dustbin men nicely they...
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An Impressive Lineup At Skegness. - View image in PDF
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