The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
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The Natural Navigator
By Tristan Gooley
Review by David Price
Let this book take you back to navigational basics with some intriguing techniques.
It is...
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The crew of the new Arranmore lifeboat were able to demonstrate their skills to a large crowd at Killybegs, Co Donegal, during the town's festival last summer. An air-sea rescue display was staged involving a simulated trawler fire,... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 29TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat coxswain, while on the pier at Lytham, saw a sailing yacht coming up the river with her mast and sail overboard. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a...
IN THE January number of THE LIFE-BOAT details were given of some of the R.N.L.I.'s plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its foundation in 1974. To these may now be added an important appeal which is being made to civic heads...
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Weymouth, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of October, 1955, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the submarine Tijger- haai, of the Royal Netherlands Navy, had grounded in Weymouth Bay.
Half an...
On the 12th August, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.S.W., with a rough sea, a telegram was received from the coastguard at Port Cranstal, about a mile south of the Point of Ayre, stating that a vessel was ashore there and that...
A schooner was observed ashore on the Causeway on the morning of the 12th March last, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a rough sea. The Lifeboat Christopher Bmon put off at 7.30, and found that the crew of the vessel, which was the...
The Walton and Frinton motor life-boat" E.M.E.D." refuelling after the service to the " Esterel.". - View image in PDF
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RNLI staff members Clare Kavanagh and Philippa Thompson, along with friend Jocie Robertson, have become the first all-female team to take on the Polar Challenge. The intrepid trio, dubbed the eg arctic angels, set off on their challenge, not... - View image in PDF
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