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Category: Advertisement
Fig 3: (Right) Building Starts of the First 47Ft Steel Fast Slipway Lifeboat Prototype the Gunwale Is Laid Down on a Deck Jig and the Five Watertight Bulkheads and Transom Erected Photographs By Cour
Fig 3: (right) Building starts of the first 47ft steel fast slipway lifeboat prototype. - View image in PDF
The gunwale is laid down on a deck jig and the five watertight bulkheads and transom erected.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
B.E.M.S for Two Kirkcudbright Life-Boatmen.
Two life-boatmen of the Kirkcudbright crew serving with the navy, have been awarded the British Empire Medal. George Parkhill, son of the coxswain, serving as officer steward on one of H.M. trawlers, won it for rescuing wounded men from a...
Category: Articles
Three Walkers Three Lifeboats
Heavy surf pounds Newhaven's 'Y' boat as she makes the first trip out to the Arun. - View image in PDF
(Photo Terry Connolly, Seaiord Gazette). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
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 31st December, 1955 79,970 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1955 has been classified by...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat Named Flossie
A small fishing-boat named the Flossie was seen to be in difficulties in Port Isaac Bay on the 30th May, a southerly gale having suddenly sprung up. The I occupant of the boat at once made for the shore, but the boat shipped so much water...
Lifeboat services continued from p. 47
continued from p. 47 1437: honorary secretary telephones Dover Coastguard and is told two children are drifting out to sea in a yellow inflatable, half a mile off Camber.
1438: maroons are fired.
1440: Rye...
Category: Services
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, 1939, Meeting of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Cape Clear, Co. Cork.—On 24th • September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o'clock in the afternoon. They came from the s.s.
Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremony at Coverack
SIR ARTHUR. QUILLER-COUCH, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and Commodore of the Fowey Yacht Club, presented to the Institution on 26th July at Coverack, Cornwall, a motor life-boat which has been built out of a...
Category: Inaugurations
On the Force of the Wind
IN the Register of Wrecks, which, always forms a portion of each number of this Journal, it will be observed that in addition.
to the direction of the wind, a column of figures is added to denote its force, by a scale, the...
Category: Articles