Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hand Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility chat includes a dill repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
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By the death of Miss M. E. Taylor, of Clapham; on 17th May last, at the age of ninety-five, the Institution lost a friend who, in spite of her great age and the loss of her sight fifty years ago, found means to help it until her...
Category: Obituaries
Sponsored walks, sails, silences, swims . . . Joan Manning, DOS (Midland Shires), greets Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, of Wrekin College, as they arrive at Worcester at the end of a 100-mile sponsored paddle from... - View image in PDF
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Crews pull their weight. . . Lyininglon ILB crew set off for their row round the hie of Wight: Bow to stern, Malcolm Smith, Alan Coster, Richard Gray, Roger Nanmck and Andrew Keen.
Photograph by courtesy of Simon... - View image in PDF
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Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.55 in the after- noon, on the 8th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning red flares one and a half miles south-south-east of Selsey Bill.
The sea was choppy, with a light...
Last autumn Jeff Needham (r.), a member of the Fund Raising Committee, presented a plaque to Ron Ride, a member of the River Thames branch and also of Shoreline, who has raised more than £1,400 on his premises in three... - View image in PDF
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PORTHDINLLAEN.—During a very heavy gale from the W.N.W., at about midday on the 14th October, a signal of distress was shown by the screw flat Tal y fan, of Liverpool, anchored in the bay. The Life-boat George Moore went off to her and...
ON the night of the 19th of October last, in a gale of wind, the small sixoared self-righting life-boat belonging to the National Life-boat Institution at Dungeness proceeded through a heavy sea, managed by eight Coast-guard men, to a wreck...
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ABERYSTWITH, CARDIGANSHIRE.—The Life-boat stationed here many years since has been replaced by a new self-righting boat, which is 35 ft. long by 8 ft. 6 in.
wide and rows ten oars double-banked.
She is...
Category: Inaugurations
On the morning of the llth of January the wind suddenly shifted to the N., and rapidly increased in violence until at noon it blew a fresh gale from the N.E., with a very high sea. At the time there was a small schooner, the Mary Jane, of...