Radio and television commentator Brian Johnston and his wife visited Brighton to name the local inshore life-boat the St. Marylebone Dolphin. Mrs. Johnston is chairman of the St.
Marylebone life-boat branch which raised the...
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It was more a case of Bells than shackles away at the Garth Inn at Helensburgh when Helmsmen Colin Gardner (I) and Michael Roberts whacked the bottle with their trusty hammers.
Giving them a helping hand is John Beaton,... - View image in PDF
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Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...
Ilfracombe, and Appledore, Devon; and Minehead, Somerset.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1954, the Admiralty tanker Wave Victor, which had fifty-five people on board, wirelessed that fire had broken out in her engine-room...
Michel Martell, senior partner of his family firm in Cognac, in the wheelhouse of the Southend life-boat on the occasion of the first issue of brandy to a life-boat station. As stated elsewhere, the House of Martell has donated cognac to... - View image in PDF
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CARDIGAN.—:During a gale from the S.W. on the 9th February the schooner Alexander, of Beaumaris, bound from Port Dinorwic for Carmarthen with a cargo of slates, ran for Cardigan Bay, and brought up off the Black Rocks outside the...
THE tragic loss of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat was the worst disaster in terms of number of men lost since the Mumbles life-boat capsized with the loss of the whole of her crew in 1947. It occurred on the 8th of December, 1959,...
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Eyemouth, and St. Abbs, Berwickshire.— At 10.7 in the morning, on the 24th of April, 1950, the Eyemouth life-boat authorities received a message from a Burnmouth fisherman that the motor fishing vessel Breadwinner, of Burn- mouth, was in...
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.19 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, information was received that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile south of Hopelake and that the crew of two were signalling for assistance. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 1.26 in...
Southampton Boat Show, September 13 to 18, got away to a good start on the first day with the presentation by Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of three cheques: £500 from Cobramold Ltd, to mark the building of the 2,000th Leisure class... - View image in PDF
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