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Deck Plan of a Self-Righting Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution Showing the Manner In Which the Gear Is Stowed
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Category: Drawings
Florya
GROUNDED YACHT THE Eastney, Hampshire, ILB on 18th June, 1972, went to the aid of the yacht Florya and rescued three people.
At 1 p.m. on that day Hayling Island Coastguard reported that a large yacht was standing into...
The Goodwins Spare a Ship
As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that the tanker Panther of...
Category: Services
Galway Life-Boat Meets Atlantic Rowers
When English Rose HI, rowed by Capt. John Ridgway (20) and Sergeant Chay Blyth (20), was sighted off the North Aran light house on 3rd September, 1966, at the end of its epic 92 day 3,000 mile voyage from Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A., the...
Category: Articles
Membership News
Membership by Instalments If you currently subscribe by direct debit you may be interested to hear that we can now offer the facility to pay by monthly or quarterly instalments. It is uneconomical to collect small amounts by direct debit,...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Value of Barometrical Indication
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the Hebrides, on the 3rd Oct. last, and inflicted such distressing loss on its poor inhabitants, the following were the indications of a Kew Verified Barometer, on...
Category: Articles
February (1)
FEBRUARY MEETING IN ERKEITHING, FIFESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 9th January, 1940, the S.S.
Elizabeth Bromley was taken from harbour to an anchorage four hundred yards out, in readiness to sail in the morning. The...
Category: Services
S.S. Royal Crown
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...
Athelduchess
AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
She was the...