Ran- snap of I lie Cmmer lifeboat picking up a solitary bomber survivor on January 29, 1942.. - View image in PDF
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Long haul for Harwich's new Severn Harwich was the first station to receive a new Severn class lifeboat (on 20 October 1996) and it was not long before the speed and endurance of the new class was put to the test.
On 12...
Search through surf BLYTH LIFEBOAT, the 46' 9" Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) had launched on exercise on Monday, August 8, and was heading for the harbour mouth when, at 1007, a call was received from HM Coastguard...
Chosen for reliability THE QUEEN'S AWARD TO INDUSTRY 1966 1967 The 70 ft boats for the RNLI are each fitted with two 7-inch alternators and control equipment screened and suppressed to comply with BS 1597/1963.
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Famous Shipwrecks.
" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...
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WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having observed lights on the 27th February, 1901, the crew of the Life- boat Margaret were summoned. The nature of the lights could not be discerned and therefore it was decided to launch the Life-boat...
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Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— At seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of April, 1952, the keeper of the Hook Tower Lighthouse telephoned that the schooner Saint Austell, of Howth, bound for New York with a crew of two, was...
Peyton – the World’s Greatest
Yachting Cartoonist
by Dick Durham
Review by David Brann
Mike Peyton’s cartoons have wrung a wry smile from many a yachtsman. We may laugh or wince as...
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Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 10.45 on the night of the 7th of April, 1953, a wireless message was received stating that a passenger in the S.S. Cor- rientes, of Glasgow, was seriously ill with a perforated stomach ulcer andasking if the...