MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of similar design...
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Plymouth, Devon - At 2.25 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, red flares were reported from a yacht in Cawsand bay. At 2.36 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left her moorings. It was three hours after low water. There was a south easterly...
Margate, Kent - At 7.3 a.m. on ist October, 1966, a yacht was reported aground on the Ridge sandbank half a mile south west of the North Tongue buoy. Although no distress signals had been made a passing ship reported that the yacht had a...
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 12.40 p.m.
on 5th January, 1967, news was received that three local fishing vessels were still at sea and the weather was deteriorating rapidly with very heavy seas breaking at the approach to the...
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 4.20 p.m. on 2oth February, 1967, two French trawlers, the Prelude and the Marie Christine, were reported to have broken down 10 miles west of Ardnamurchan.
The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...
rnolograpn fiy courtesy oltne Evening Argus, Brighton EIUOVS IIS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.
Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable,...
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PILOT BALED OUT Workington, Cumberland. At 1.48 p.m. on 22nd July, 1965, the Workington coastguard was told by the coastguard at Formby that the pilot of a Lightning aircraft had baled out twelve miles west of St. Bees Head. At 2.6 the...
Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.20 a.m. on 29th October, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted two miles south of the Breakwater. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 1.33 in a strong westerly breeze...
LIFE-BOAT TOWED BULLOCK At 3.50 p.m. on 2ist November, 1965, a farmer informed the coxswain that a bullock had fallen over the cliff at East Pickard Bay and asked for the life-boat's assistance. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary...
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 6.37 p.m. on ipth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Royal National Life-boat Institution's reserve life-boat Edward Z Dresden (O.N. 707) on passage from Workington to...