Crew's 'fine teamwork' during 16-hour service The crew of Wells Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill have been commended following a 16-hour service which 'was dominated by a fine display of teamwork' in winds...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1957, the coastguard telephon- ed that the master of the Sunk light- vessel had reported that the yacht West Wind had made fast to the stern of the...
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The 100-year-old Dutch clipper De Tukker ran aground on a sandbank at the entrance to Amble Harbour, after a tide miscalculation. Amble’s D class Mildred Holcroft crew passed a tow rope from the...
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I AM sitting right, opposite to it. The dark red doors of the stone, chapel-like j little building are wide open. The sun is shining, and the sea is calui. Over the doors in large white letters on a blue background is written "...
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Exmouth: D. R. Allen, Birmingham branch honorary treasurer (/.) and Clem Lewis, Birmingham Evening Mail assistant editor, are taken afloat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Birmingham Evening Mail. - View image in PDF
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Updating information on the stateboard. Movements of head office officials, divisional inspectors and other coast staff are kept readily available on pegboard (r.).. - View image in PDF
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TEIGNMOUTH, DEVON.—A pilot boat, belonging to Teignmouth and manned by five men, was running for the harbour during a S.E. wind and a rough sea, at 11 A.M. on the 17th of March, when a broken sea suddenly overtook her and capsized her. The...
During a strong gale from the N.W., on the 11th November, the schooner Margaret Caldwell, of Port- rush, was at anchor in the Skerries Roads, when the barque Convert, of Londonderry, running for the same anchorage, got foul of her, and...
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made possible by the system of coast communication which had recently been...
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