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Arctic Cycle Challenge
Fifty cyclists are being sought to undertake a once-in-a-lifetime ride to the most northerly lifeboat station at Honningsvag, Northern Norway, during the Arctic Cycle Challenge, taking place between 18-26 July 1998, in aid of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat (5)
JULY 23RD. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. News had been received that an up-turned boat could be seen on Stert Flats, apparently drifting out to sea, with two people clinging to her. The boat, however, grounded on a mud bank and the two men...
End of a Class Act
The very last Waveney class lifeboat in the RNLI fleet, Margaret Graham, sailed from her mooring at Amble lifeboat station on 24 July under the helm of her retiring coxswain, Rodney Surge MBE, to take up a new role as pilot boat for Whitby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An American Fortress Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An American Fortress aeroplane had crashed, but her crew of ten were rescued by a motor fishing boat. - Rewards, £15 12s.
(See Sheringham, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page...
Fagerheim
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—During foggy weather on the morning of the llth August, 1938, the Norwegian steamer Fagerheim, of Tons berg, ran ashore, in a smooth sea, south of Briardene. Information was given by the coastguard, and at 10.40...
The "Winston Churchill"
THERE are at present on the coast seven motor life-boats which have been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund. An eighth is to be added to them before the end of the year, the 46-feet Watson cabin life-boat which is now...
Category: Articles
The Motor Drifter Curlew
At 11.30 A.M. on the 24th Novem- ber the reserve motor life-boat City of Bradford I (on temporary duty at this station), which had already been out earlier in the day to search for a vessel reported ashore, see page 414), put out again, as...
A Rowing Boat (2)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.-—2nd July, 1939. A rowing boat had got into difficulties and a motor boat which went to her aid broke down, but both boats got in unaided.—Rewards, £10 10s. 6d..
A Converted Life-Boat
On the 13th of July, 1952, the Barrow life-boat took two exhausted men off a converted life-boat in heavy seas.
—Rewards: the thanks of the Insti- tution inscribed on vellum to Cox- swain Roland Moore; £16 7s. For a...
An Aeroplane
3rd July. An aeroplane of Cobham's Air Routes, Ltd., crashed off the Needles.
A steamer picked up the only passenger, but the pilot was killed. Sir Alan Cobham wrote expressing appreciation of the effort made by the...