• In Small Boat Navigation (Stanley Paul, £2.25), Lt-Commander Pat Hepherd covers a great deal of this wide subject clearly and at times lightheartedly.
To the completely inexperienced reader some of the information...
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MARCH 4TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At four in the morning the Elie coastguard reported that a trawler was aground near Boarhills, and the motor lifeboat Nellie and Charlie was launched at 4.45.
A strong...
Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...
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1904 to 1947—a long period, but a very pleasant time of work and progress in life-boat design. For seventeen years before that, I had the privilege of carrying out, under his supervision, the'designs produced by the late G....
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JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...
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Several aspects of the Chairman's address at the Annual General Meeting - reported elsewhere in this issue - are more closely linked than might appear at first sight.
The Chairman referred both to the ever-increasing...
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To the Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—As I was an eye-witness of them, I think it may be of interest to you to have a narrative from myself of the events which led up to what I have no hesitation in calling one of the...
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THESE reports contain matter of very considerable general interest, showing, as they do, what has been and is being done to perfect the system of weather forecasts in this our ever-changing climate, as well as to compile a register of the...
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IF any excuse were necessary for again reverting to this subject in these pages, it is assuredly to be found in its importance to all concerned, viz., the owners of ships and cargoes; the various marine insurance and salvage associations;...
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Committee, forthwith approached the Board of Trade with a view to the holding of the proposed Conference. In due course the Board of Trade called together the Conference at which the Committee of Management of the Institution, the Com-...
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