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Thought you would like a copy of this photo [main picture], shot from the lifeboat during the tow-in of the Norwegian boat Keltic in poor weather.
Would you have any footage of a Severn...
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U.S.A. Liberty Ship James Eagan Layne
MARCH 21ST. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.3 in the afternoon a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a vessel was sinking five miles north-east of Eddystone, as the result of enemy action.
A...
Plowman
On the 17th No- vember, the smack Plowman, of Yar- mouth, was seen making signals of distress in Yarmouth Roads during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. The Duff small life- boat went off through a heavy sea, and after several attempts,...
Calf Sound
Seven-hour service to cargo vessel in storm conditions Giving help to the 400-ton cargo vessel Calf Sound kept Eyemouth's 44ft Waveney busy for some seven hours in winds of up to Force 10 on 25 March 1988. The vessel was anchored about...
‘ YOU NEVER THINK IT’LL HAPPEN TO YOU’
Equipment failure sounds benign. But when it’s a broken mast that causes a capsize, it can turn an afternoon on the water into a serious situation – very quickly
Getting ready for an evening shift, Police Officer and Crew...
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Fishing Cobles (2)
—On the 27th Dec- ember, when twenty of the fishing-cobles belonging to Filey were at sea, a strong S.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up, bringing with it a very rough sea. As the men in the cobles were in considerable danger the Life-boat Hollon...
On the rocks
Two sailors clung to a ledge beneath Welsh cliffs, lashed by waves with the tide rising around them
With the sea and wind driving directly onto the rocky shoreline, this would be an extremely...
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The Life-Boat Services of the World: Sweden
By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sällskabet För Räddning Af Skeppsbrutne...
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The S.S. Brilliant
Torbay, Devon.—On the night of the 30th January, 1939, the Berry Head coastguard reported that rockets had been seen about eight miles to the eastward.
A moderate easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy swell. At 8.55 P.M....
The Latvian Steamer Mars
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—On the morning of the 19th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was ashore at North Ness, May Island. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a strong swell, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat...