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Notes of the Quarter

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1955 - - 79,260 Notes of the Quarter H.R.II. THE DrKF. OF attended...

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Direct Talking

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

The RNLI's Director, Brian Miles, looks back at 1997 and at the Institution's plans for 1998 Although one of our principle challenges must be for the RNLI to be administered in a modern, businesslike and efficient way we should never...

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The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (1)

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...

Four Fishing Yawls

Date: November 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 218

telephonic message was received from the Coast- guard at Wick, stating that four fishing yawls were in distress in Wick Bay and making their way north. The sea j at the time was very heavy and the j weather was cold and hazy. ...

Economy and Willing Boys

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1957, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat which had engine trouble was sheltering near Reiss Sands and that a motor fishing vessel was stand- ing by. At 3.8...

Marie Bhan

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Wick, Caithness-shire. At noon on the 6th of September, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat needed help ten miles south-east of Wick. The life- boat was not launched immediately as all the local...

Ploughboy

Date: June 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 372

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the llth of February, 1955, a man rang up to say that the local fishing boat Ploughboy had left for the fishing grounds at four in the morning, with a crew of two, but had not...

A Father's Advice

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

A LADY sending a donation from Brighton writes : " Reading your appeal in my paper last week made me remember words of my late father which he often spoke, when my brothers and myself were children: ' Never, never pass a life-boat...

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The Passage of the Motor Life-Boat "Dunleary" from Cowes to Kingstown

Date: February 1920

Volume: 24

Issue: 268

By Commander STOPFORD C. DOUGLAS, R.N., Inspector for the Irish District.

THE passage of this boat from Cowes to Kingstown gave her a. test to which Life-boats are not often subjected.

Many'encounter...

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Tonnage Admeasurement (Continued)

Date: February 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 123

IN the article on this subject in oar last number we stated that nine out of the twelve members of the Royal Commission on Tonnage were unanimous in their recommendations; that three of their number objected to sign the Report, viz., Messrs....

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