On a lee shore INFORMATION from Ministry of Defence Police that a catamaran, Helen M, was anchored in a dangerous position off Pendine was received by Tenby Coastguard at 2110 on Wednesday October 7, 1981. Two of the catamaran's crew...
On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.25 in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding her whistle for help, and the No. 2 life-boat, Edmund and Mary Robinson, was launched at...
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US Coast Guard 44ft and 41ft lifeboats as stationed on the New England coast.. - View image in PDF
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, FOUNDED IN 1824, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
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The fishwife who has collected £501 in 12 years. (See previous page.). - View image in PDF
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COMMANDER PHILIP EDWARD VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life- boats, retired from the service of the Institution on the 30th of June of this year. He had been chief inspector since the 1st of January, 1939.
Commander...
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What's it like to volunteer at our most northerly station, Aith, on the Shetland Islands? On 20 June, Photographer Jack Lowe of the Lifeboat Station Project made the most of the midsummer light, while the crew spoke about life at 60°...
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A sad accident involving the loss of five lives occurred on the evening of 1st May to a Coastguard boat belonging to Shingle Street. The boat earlier in the day had been to Aldeburgh, and when returning to Shingle Street capsized near the...