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Program
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Naming Ceremonies (1)
EIGHT new motor life-boats were named during the summer of 1949, two on the English coast, at Swanage and East- bourne, three on the Welsh coast, at New Quay (Cardigan), Barmouth, and Porthdinllaen, two in Northern Ireland, at Portrush and...
Category: Inaugurations
Glebe
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.50 ill the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948, a fisherman of Lulworth Cove came ashore and reported that a yacht and its dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Whitenose. Ten minutes later the motor life-boat...
The Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...
Category: Articles
M.V. Andoni (1)
Tow by tug IN VERY BAD WEATHER on the evening of Thursday December 9, 1982, the 500 ton coaster MV Andoni suffered engine failure and anchored 2Vz miles south of Shoreham Harbour. She was seen by Coxswain Kenneth Everard of Shoreham Harbour...
Prince Lewellen & The Scotch Fishing Craft Victoria
In the early morning of the 6th September a tele- phone message was received stating that two steamers had been in collision about four miles to the southward of the Point, and that one was apparently sinking. The crew of the No. 1 Life-...
36-Foot Motor Self-Bailing, Self-Righting Life-Boat, U.S. Coast Guard
36-Foot Motor Self-Bailing Self-Righting Life-Boat US Coast Guard. - View image in PDF
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The Sea Chart: the Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts
The Sea Chart: the Illustrated History of Nautical Maps and Navigational Charts
by John Blake
Review by Tim Corke
The history of Great Britain has been governed by the sea and maritime...
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Lifeboat People
Surely the oldest ladies' guild member must be Miss Violet Oswald. One of thebest loved members of Dunoon and District guild, she reached the age of 103 on October 12, 1974. At the annual general meeting at Dunoon last year she was...
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United States Life-Saving Service
THE Life-saving Service in the United States, which is a branch of the Govern- ment, has recently issued its Annual Report, giving full particulars of its operations during the year which ended on the 30th June, 1896.
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