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Hurricane-force winds as two lifeboats search for missing diversThe rescue of two skin divers in appalling weather conditions has won Acting Coxswain James Dougal a Silver Medal for Gallantry. Weather and sea conditions during the service...
Tsiropinas
— At 6.15 P.M. on the 30th April the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched to the assistance of a large steamer ashore on the Goodwin Sands. On arrival at the stranded vessel five Life-boatmen were placed on board the stranded...
Couer de Lion
C class takes off two survivors before fishing boat breaks up Helmsman Ian McDowell of the St Bees lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal for the leadership, skill and courage he displayed during a service to a fishing...
Faithful II and Sovereign and a Trinity House Tender (1)
Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland. — At 5.22 on the evening of the 5th of March, 1952, the Holy Island coastguard re- ported to the Holy Island life-boat station a message received from the North Sunderland life-boat station...
Wetterfrosch im Glas (Weatherfrog in a glass), 1887.
Before forecasting was an established science, many mariners relied on the behaviour of a certain tree frog to predict storms. Needless to say, it wasn’t terribly reliable and, even today, Germans use wetterfrosch colloquially to refer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
Category: Articles
Betty II
At 2.30 P.M. on the 29th September the coastguard tele- phoned that a small boat was in trouble off The Foreland. A little later another message was received that the boat had been taken in tow, but that a motor boat in Minnis Bay was in dis...
Kingfisher, Maureen and Good Cheer
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of April, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing, with squalls of sleet, and heavy seas were breaking across the bay and harbour entrance.
Three local cobles, Kingfisher,...
Sonia and Majestic
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 1.19 p.m. on 1st November, 1969, it was learnt that the motor boat Sonia was in difficulties about two miles south east by east of Tyne piers. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 1.26 in a gale force west...
Xtra Help for Penarth
A newly opened branch of Halifax Estate Agency in Penarth pledged £10 to Penarth lifeboat station for each of the first 25 houses placed with the office on a sole agency.
Manageress Estelle Pemberton is pictured at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs