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the 'Skipper' by Swift 7x50 7x50 This is the basic naval binocular with the centre focus added for your convenience. It's a big rugged workhorse of a...
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GOURDON, KlNCARDINESHIRE. —• One of the fishing boats of this port, while attempting to enter the harbour during a strong S.S.W. breeze with a rough sea, on the 24th February incurred considerable risk, and the Local Committee, knowing she...
R/T procedure changes THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE modifications introduced in the new edition of the Handbook for Radio Operators should be noted: Control of distress traffic: The word 'PRUDENCE' (pronounced PRU-DONCE) has been...
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25 Years Ago Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham-St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a...
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LAST December the Institution received from the Honorary Secretary of its Branch at Warminster, Wiltshire, a cheque for £16 as a legacy from the late Hugo Harbord Terchman. She wrote : " He was a young man just going to Oxford, who...
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SEPTEMBER 17TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. During the night information was received from the postmaster of Northbay that a small rowing boat, with two men aboard, had been caught in a storm in Barra Sound. A strong N.W. gale was blowing,...
JULY 14TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. About 11.30 in the morning the Southbourne coastguard reported that a boat had capsized a mile from the shore oft Christchurch Ledge. The motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 11.35 in...
DECEMBER 23RD. - LYTHAM - ST.ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE. The motor life-boat Dunleary had just returned from searching for an aeroplane when a message was received from the senior naval officer at Preston asking the life-boat to take a message to a...
AT Quoyle, in Northern Ireland, aquatic sports and a carnival were held on 18th July in aid of the Downpatrick branch of the Institution. The Cloughey motor life-boat was present and one of the events was a balloon race. Prizes were given to...
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JUST before Christmas a packet was brought to the Institution by an official of the Post Office, who wished to be certain that it was intended for the Institution. It had the Oxford post- mark and was addressed "To life-boat...
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