BOURNEMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE. About 2.20 in the afternoon of Easter Sunday, the 21st of April, 1946, the pleasure craft Skylark sank in Bournemouth Bay about a mile off Alum Chine, with 70 or more people on board. The weather was fine and the sea...
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In the meantime tragic occurrences were taking place at Blyth. The s.s. Muristan, a steel steamer belonging to Swansea, while bound from the Tyne to Rouen, ran ashore in Blyth Bay.
On the night of the 18th her steeringgear...
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ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S.
Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to the east of Beachy Head. During the next ten days a number of salvage boats went out to her, and at 4.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of May Coxswain...
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TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
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Huge Expansion in Work of R.N.L.I.
DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Royal National Life-boat Institution opened 49 new stations and closed 11. In roughly the same period the number of calls by rescue craft...
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Ob«Me.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
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At the time of going to print, the RNLI was awaiting the outcome of a UK Government consultation on the modernisation of the Coastguard service. Under Government proposals, the number of maritime rescue coordination centres (MRCCs) around...
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