A subscriber in Huddersfield in sending his subscription of £2 writes: "In the year 1889 my father bought us children Mr. Ballantyne's Book 'The Life-boat'. Since then I have never been able to get past a life-boat...
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Statistics show that more than half the RNLI's lifeboat launches are to pleasure craft. The situation is one which the pleasure boating fraternity is aware of, and which the sport's national body is making every effort to remedy.<...
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The Wreck of the "Islander." A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in...
On the 26th Oc- tober, the schooner Ceres, of Arbroath, ran ashore, in a heavy sea, on the Salthouse Bank, striking heavily, and sustaining much, damage. The Lytham life-boat proceeded to the aid of her crew, and remaining by her until the...
MR. HECTOR HUGHES, M.P. for Aberdeen North, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what provision is made by his Department for the protection and salvage of shipping- and seamen in danger at sea round the coasts of Scotland; who...
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Unseen dangers The sea looked calm and safe at Forth beach, Cornwall, on 18 June 2005 but for two tired swimmers, the winds and currents were life threateningThe public were enjoying a sunny day at the beach, unaware that a boy and a girl...
Breeches buoy rescue TWO PEOPLE IN DANGER, stranded on a rock at the mouth of the River Dee, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station by Ardrossan Coastguard at 1321 on Sunday, May 16. The weather was...
Les Coe, the head launcher, shovels an evenly sloping pathway between the sea and the short slipway by the turntable.. - View image in PDF
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French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...