. . . ready for the 12 '/2-ton lifeboat to gather speed down over the skids and hit the sea.. - View image in PDF
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A one-sided fight at Hornchurch. A member of the Metropolitan Police Force womens' self defence team makes light work of a would-be attacker during a demonstration at Hornchurch and Rainham branch's silver jubilee... - View image in PDF
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No Sea Room -and other things ROCKS, SHALLOWS or obstructing lines reduced the lifeboats' manoeuvring room in four of the services (described briefly below) for which medals for gallantry were presented at the Royal Festival Hall in May...
Category: Articles
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1957, the coxswain saw a small fishing boat drifting out to sea about three miles east of Rosslare harbour. At 3.5 the life-boat Douglas Hyde put out in a choppy sea. There...
WHEN the maritime character of this country is considered, and the liability of a large portion of its population to be at one time or another exposed to the " dangers of the seas," surprise maybe well excited at the facts—that but...
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IND COOPE and the Co-op have run a joint promotion in Scotland to raise funds for three D class lifeboats for service on Scotland's coasts. The first of the three, to be stationed at Stranraer, was handed over last March in George Square...
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The life-boat skims the waters, the moon sails down the sky, The angry wind is blowing and the waves are mounting high; A line of clouds are floating above the ocean's breast, And every geabird falters with a feeling of...
Category: Poetry
AT the first annual meeting of the new Hornsey Branch, a special programme of sea chanties was given by members of the Crouch End Toe H. The singers were dressed as a Life-boat Crew in jerseys and caps, and all the chanties were sung with...
Category: Meetings
Round Britain Windsurf Tim Batstone is planning to windsurf round the entire 2,000 mile coastline of Britain in 1984, sailing in a clockwise direction starting and finishing at Tower Bridge. His aims include being the first person to achieve...
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