The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
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Sail board in trouble AT 1553 on Wednesday, November 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Aberystwyth lifeboat station was informed by Milford Haven coastguard that a board sailor was in trouble just outside the mouth of Aberystwyth...
MRS. LOTIXGA SMITH, of Gcdling, Nottingham, celebrated her ninetieth birthday on the K th of November, 1947.
In spite of her great age, in spite of ill health and in spite of an accident last winter when she was knocked...
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FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At about 8 P.M. on the 19th April, 1939, a small yawl with a party of five boys on board got into difficulties and could not make Fraserburgh Harbour. The sea was choppy with a squally increasing S.S.W. breeze....
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Bude, Cornwall - At 12.15 P-m. on 30th May, 1966, the IRB was on exercise with a partly trained crew when she received a message that a bather was in difficulties half a mile north west of Bude.
She proceeded immediately in...
• The history of Britain's Coastguard is an extraordinarily colourful one, and it is surprising that hitherto no full history of the service has been published.
The deficiency has now been made good by William Webb in...
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Working Together from page 93 You have only got to touch it with a rope, or something like that, and there is no problem.
Kennett: We just give them a flick as soon as they come down. That is good...
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EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. About 11.30 in the morning of the 26th of May, 1944, the motor fishing boat Cecil Rhodes, with six men on board, caught fire while fishing some nine miles north-north-east of Eyemouth. A light westerly wind was...
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A TRAVELLING waxwork exhibition has been arranged by Mr. Louis Tussaud, of the famous waxwork show, and Mr.
Tussaud has included in it a life-boat tableau. He has also kindly agreed that the Institution's collecting...
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February Meeting.
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-Dur- ing the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to...
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