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• E. C. B. Lee, O.B.E., c.Eng., F.R.I.N.A., and Kenneth Lee, M.B.B.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.G.S., D.I.H., are to be congratulated on their book Safety and Survival at Sea, (Cassell & Co., price £2.50). A vast amount of time has been taken...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Sea Hawkinge
Near rocks ON WEDNESDAY EVENING June 27, 1984, the 52ft Arun relief lifeboat A. J. R. and L. G. Uridge, on temporary duty at Fishguard, was out on exercise when she heard that MFV Sea Hawk had broken down close to the rocks under Strumble...
(Right): the Atlantic 21
(Right): The Atlantic 21 bedstead type trolley which Aberystwyth crew modified themselves so that it is 'custom built' for their new 17ft 6in twin-engined C class inflatable lifeboat, taking the weight of her keel and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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The S.S. Vancouver
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CORK. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless S O S call from the S.S. Vancouver City, of Bideford. She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons and had been...
Koltsov
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 7.40 on the evening of the 1st of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Russian trawler was due to arrive off Stornoway about one o'clock in the morning with a sick woman on board who...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Seeker, Silver Stream and New Venture
Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 galeCoxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following the rescue of three men from two fishing vessels...
A Dinghy (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of March, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that a dinghy had been sighted about two miles east-north- east of the pier. It was not clear whether...
Your Letters
Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
Category: Correspondence
Westward
Crabber swamped in Force 12 windsCoxswain/Mechanic Malcolm MacDonald of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for a service in which the Stornoway lifeboat rescued two men from a crabber which was...