BOATING HOLIDAYS Sail the Suffolk Coast & Rivers or an Offshore Passage with an experienced skipper aboard a 1999 Oceon Sailing Yacht.
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FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty Kiso EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
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The following Coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also awarded an annuity, gratuity or pension....
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THURSDAY, 10th January, 1889.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., "V.V., in the Chair.
Bead and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and...
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IN June we were honoured by a visit from the COMTE DE BIZEMONT, the Chief Inspector of our sister service in France, and we need hardly say it was a great pleasure to welcome him and show him what he required to see. Among other things the...
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The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.
In figs. 1 and 2, the...
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In the dense fog which prevailed in the Channel on the night of the 19th June, H.M.S. Sappho collided with another vessel off Dunge- ness. By a strange coincidence the colliding ship was also named the Sappho. The position of the cruiser...
Montrose, Angus.—On the morning of the 12th January the Dutch motor vessel Bornrif, of Groningen, drove ashore on the Annat Bank. She was bound in ballast from Grangemouth to Montrose, and carried a crew of five.
A strong S...
SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...