Harwich: At 0630 on the morning of Friday June 8, 1984, Harwich's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, John Fison, slipped her moorings to go to the aid of the 107ft schooner, Stina. Returning to Maldon from Amsterdam with nine people on board,...
Laurence Gilding is to be warmly congratulated on successfully carrying out the tasks he set himself in his new work The Book of Sea Rescue (Frederick Warne, los. 6d.).
He describes the work of ±e life-boat service, of...
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Dover, Kent. On the evening of the 28th of June, 1958, the police reported that two boys had been cut off by the tide between South Foreland and St.
Margaret's Bay. At 8.55 the life-boat Southern Africa put out, taking...
Instead of beating yourself up about not writing that novel, tell a shorter story with the help of RNLI Helm and Writer Eleanor Hooker. You might even get published ...
Flash fiction has one rule: stick to the word count....
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Below: Martin, ably assisted by Fred, prepares to dive for the yacht.. - View image in PDF
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Over marshes AT ABOUT 1630 on Wednesday December 17, 1980, Alan Coster, assistant harbour master at Lymington and a member of the lifeboat crew, received a telephone call from the Sealink offices, Lymington, with information relayed from a...
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
THE first organisation for rescuing those in danger at sea to come into being in Sweden was established by the Swedish Government in 1854, when a life-boat station was set up in the south of Sweden. The service was under naval control until...
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A couple made a desperate call for help in the early hours of 20 December 2009 when their motorboat got into difficulties in near-gale conditions and snow showers off the mouth of the Humber.
The batteries to their VHF...
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Bottom right: A lone Brighton crew member wades thigh deep through flood water in an Uckfield car park. - View image in PDF
Pictures D Steve Edwards. - View image in PDF
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