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It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost evenmanufacturer promises greater reliability as an important...
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A Village Life-Boat Day
(From Country Life.) THERE was a sound of men's voices singing, calls and cries, laughter and the ringing of a bell; everyone went to the windows. Through the new green leaves one could see in the road a little group of men and girls...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
POET ERIN, ISLE or MAN.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she...
Category: Services
Five Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 27th of March, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the weather was deteriorating and that five fishing cobles were at sea.
At 10.37 the life-boat The Cuttle was...
New Inventions
WHILE this Institution is endeavouring to supply our coasts with ample means for saving life on occasions of accident at sea, and whilst our sister institution, " The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent...
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A Yacht Club Visits the Walmer Station
LAST December Coxswain Frederick Upton of Walmer gave a talk to the Thames Motor Yacht Club, and at the end of the month a party of over twenty members, with their ladies, visited Deal. They entertained the Mayor and Mayoress and the...
Category: Branches
The Sea Fisheries of Scotland
THE recently published Annual Report of the Scottish Fishery Board is full of interesting and useful information on this very important part of the national industries and food supplies.
This Board, as at present...
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Two Men Washed Out of Life-Boat
Two members of the Teesmouth crew had a remarkable escape when they were washed out of the life-boat after she had gone to the help of an Indian steamer on I4th March, 1964.
At 9.40 that morning the honorary secretary of...
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People and Places
Drama after the draw! The former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, and comedienne Sandi Toksvig drew a massive crowd to Weymouth's harbourside when they kept a promise to the RNLI to pick the winning tickets in the 66th National Lottery.<...
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An Aeroplane (7)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...