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Feature: the Survival Centre
A crew member urges the Severn class Lifeboat towards her destination, a burning tanker apparently on the horizon. Just metres away, the crew of an Atlantic 75 lifeboat works hard to right their capsized vessel It sounds like a scene...
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Bookshelf
For the enthusiast Lifeboats and Lifeboat Stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland ISBN 0902792 156 by Nicholas Leach Published by The Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society at £4.50 Nicholas Leach has prepared a most useful volume for the...
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Petit Jean Yves
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.55 on the night of the 9th of March, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was firing flares at the south-east end of Gugh Island. At 11.10, when the life-boat Guy and Clare...
International Congress of the Breton Life-Saving Society
A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.
Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...
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Wave Sheaf
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR ENTRANCE Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.21 on the night of the 25th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the motor fishing vessel Wave Sheaf of Lossiemouth was ashore near the Point of...
Iron Ships, and the Wreck of the Royal Charter
How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline! During the present year alone...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 102. Lives rescued 193.
April Meeting.
Aberdeen.—During the very bad storms from 21st January to 1st Febru- ary the motor life-boat was launched three times, the pulling and sailing life- boat...
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150th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Forfarshire— Grace Darling In Context By Georgette Purches Assistant Public Relations Officer
Is there in the field of history, or of fiction even, one instance of female heroism to compare for one moment, with this? wrote The Times in 1838.
The event to which the leading article in the newspaper referred was the...
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