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Fig 5: New Sacrificial Anodes Are Fitted to Afloat Boats Each Year the Wastage Caused By Electrolytic Action Can Be Seen By Comparing New Anode With Old One Just Taken O
Fig. 3: Buoyancy air cases, each shaped to fit and marked with its position, are taken out when opening up the hull for examination at partial and complete survey . . .. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Flying Enterprise
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...
Meet The Team
Meet the team Early on the morning of Monday, 18 September 2006, an unusual meeting took place at St Agnes, Cornwall. Here, the Lifeboat brings you the resulting portrait.
The RNLI lifeboat crew, lifeguards, shorehelpers... - View image in PDF
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The Joseph Rothwell Sykes and Hilda M on the Day of Her Naming Ceremony
The Joseph Rothwell Sykes and Hilda M on the Day of Her Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (11)
FEBRUARY 7TH . - SUNDERLAND , DURHAM. An aeroplane had been reported in the sea, but she had landed safely and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £9 6S.
The 35ft Pilot Cutter Leslie H.
Storm tow TORBAY DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY saw the 35ft pilot cutter Leslie H leaving Brixham Harbour at 1145 on Sunday, February 19, 1978. The weather was so bad that he immediately became concerned for her safety and alerted the...
The S.S. Cabo Espartel and the S.S. Felspar
Dungeness, Kent.—In the early morn- ing of the 26th of May, 1950, in a thick fog, the S.S. Cabo Espartel, of Seville, bound for Valentia with a cargo of ammonia, collided with the S.S. Felspar, of Glasgow. About 3.49, just before she sank,...
The French Collier Capitaine Augustin
MARCH 17TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2.58 P.M. a message was received from the Margate coastguard that a vessel was sinking, after an explosion, about two miles S.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A moderate southerly breeze was blowing. The sea was...
The S.S. Matching
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1951, Lloyd's agent reported that the S.S. Matching, of London, due off Gorleston at 6.0 that evening, had a sick man on board and had asked for a...
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy
FEBRUARY 11TH. - CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. The lifeboats were called out to search for an aeroplane’s dinghy and it was found by the Donaghadee life-boat, but it was only a test call by the air-sea rescue service. - Rewards,...