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Lifeboat Services (from page 190} Enterprise dinghy Spirtle with one man on board, at 1648. The Pentland Firth Yacht Club's guard boat, The Mendicant, was still in attendance but was unable to make headway in the prevailing...

north easterly course, was making no headway and drifting towards the rocks, but the three men on board refused help, saying that they were on their way to Ireland.

It was at this point that the Coastguard received...

(Continued from page 215.) THERE remains to be considered the distribution of lights on a coast and the positions in which they should be placed.

It will be readily conceived that, important as it is to produce a brilliant...

Hyannis to Rockland from page 233 were asked regarding the operation of a voluntary lifeboat service outside Government control. The predominantly shore based role of HM Coastguard was a fact which many of the audience found hard to...

from page 203 Opening time approaches and already a queue of visitors is building up. Forward publicity, arranged by Don Harris, deputy national organiser, had resulted in announcements of the sale by two radio stations; it all...

from page 19 modern lifeboat engines, so that they will continue to operate normally after a capsize. Access is by watertight hatches and ample ventilation trunks keep the engine room unusually cool; these trunks go right down to the bottom...

(continuedfrom page 55) training ships Royalist, Sir Winston Churchill and Malcolm Miller, with merchant ships to the south and naval ships stretching away into the distant east. All morning a steady stream was sailing past Calshot as little...

and rough seas. At the request of the Coastguard, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Atlantic 21 was launched with Helmsman Colin Staples in command.

However, when the lifeboat arrived on scene the man had succeeded in...