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Stick or pin? Is this the end of an era? Another chapter ended in our history? I refer to the demise of that ancient institution, the boat-on-a-pin flag day emblem, which is now being replaced by the adhesive type.
What...
Category: Correspondence
A Breezy Day In Barmouth As the Station's Mersey Class Moira Barry Comes Alongside. Neither Rain Nor Wind Could Dampen the Enthusiasm and Ashore Colourful
A breezy day in Barmouth as the station's Mersey class Moira Barry comes alongside. Neither rain nor wind could dampen the enthusiasm and ashore colourful umbrellas vied with the bunting!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A French Trawler (1)
Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.
Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...
Indian Irb Crewman
Mr. Rajagopalan Sudarsanam, of Atheling Grove, South Queensferry, West Lothian, has been enrolled as a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution's Queensferry IRB crew.
With the possible exception of Atlantic...
Category: Branches
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1860
FOE the past nine years we have periodically called public attention to the Annual Official Register of Shipwrecks on the Coast and in the Seas of the United Kingdom, presented by the Board of Trade to Parliament.
It is...
Category: Articles
Three Russian Seamen Rescued Off Rocks
ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...
Category: Articles
Western Lass
Salcombe Life-boat Disaster.
Sunset and evening star, And one clear call {or me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may...
Varley Dry Accumulators Limited
The battery that's fitted to the Atlantic The Atlantic 21 was designed for the RNLI to withstand the arduous conditions involved in high speed search and rescue operations.
This special boat needs a very special battery...
Category: Advertisement
The Chairman of the Committee of Management, Capt. The Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Receiving a Copy of the Film 'Life-Boat' From the Deputy Managing Director of the Perkins Engines Group, Mr. Richard Perkins
The Chairman of the Committee of Management, Capt. The Hon.
V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., receiving a copy of the film 'Life-boat' from the deputy managing director of the Perkins Engines Group,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs