• Sea Rescue by Gardner Soule (Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia) is written by a journalist and brings an urgent, exciting interest to a wide range of dramatic sea stories. Ranging from the recovery of splashed-down spacemen to broken...
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Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 30 May 1990, show that during 1990: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 785 times (an average of some 5 launches a day) More than 215 lives were saved (an average of 1.5 people rescued each...
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The Institution has appointed Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D..R.N.R., who was its inspector of life-boats on the east coast, and before that inspector in Scotland, to be deputy chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Michelmore's place...
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Presentation of the Prizes in the London District. LAST year, for the first time, the presentation of the prizes won in this com- petition in the London area (consistingof the schools under the London County Council) took place at one...
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FMBTWOOD, LANCASHIRE. — At 5.45 A.M.
on the 10th August, it was reported that a vessel had dragged her anchor and was in distress about 2 miles N.E. of the Wyre Light. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.W., and a...
GORLESTON.—On the 9th October, at about 2 P.M., the No. 2 Life-boat, Leicester, was launched and proceeded to the assistance of the dandy Morning Star, of Great Yarmouth, on a fishing voyage with a crew of six men, which had stranded on the...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About a quarter to five in the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had reported five people marooned on a sandbank between Naze Point and Stone Banks Buoy. The motor...
Ilfracombe, Devon. — At 5.5 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht one mile east of Widmouth Head was drifting towards Hangman Point and that her crew had waved a hurricane lamp. She was near the...
Buckle, Banffshlre.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was ashore half a mile north-west of the Covesea Lighthouse, and at 3.40 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow was launched...
• As last year, I would like once again to pay for my 1973 copies of THE LIFEBOAT.
I look forward to the Journal. I find it very interesting and informative.
After I have finished with it, I put it on the...
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