Dover, Kent. At 2.40 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1959, the eastern arm signal station reported that the Polish yacht Polonia was in difficul- ties in the Camber with ten men aboard.
The Dover Harbour Board tug...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — On the 7th December, 1937, at about 2.30 P.M., information was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Day Dawn, of Peterhead, with a crew of three, had been sighted by the lightkeeper at...
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.43 a.m. on 15th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the brother of the acting honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that the oyster smack Frederick George of Maldon...
Members of the Brierley Hill and Kingswinford branch had highflying ideas for fund raising, for John Stoker, a branch committee member, persuaded some of his friends to make a sponsored parachute jump.
When all the jumpers... - View image in PDF
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Fl Lt J. A. Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of RAI- Brawdy were awarded the 1978 L. G.
Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for their invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'. This instrument will enable ships to home on to any... - View image in PDF
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JULY 25TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. At 12.15 in the morning distress signals were burned by the motor yacht Mary Bowers, of Chichester, which had gone ashore on Mangeuse Rocks shortly after leaving St. Helier Harbour. She had six onboard. The...
By the time this issue of theLifeboat reaches you, coastal hovercraft trials will have been completed as part of the RNLI's hovercraft pilot scheme.
Following successful results from initial trials at Poole, the 7.6m...
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Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, president of the Institution, comes ashore after inspecting the new Dover life-boat Faithful Forester after the naming ceremony on 26th July, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard
Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...
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SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 6.46 in the evening the Bude coastguard reported that a boat, a mile off Bude breakwater, needed help. A strong west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At seven o’clock...