Spear 9m Police Launch Waveney 134m Self-righting Lifeboat & craft for the total coastguard coocepl Tracker 19-6m Air-Sea Rescue Launch Manager Military Sales, Fairey Marine Group, Hamble, Southampton.
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Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
For the last 12 years visitors to The Folly Inn on the banks of the River Medina on the Isle of Wight have been accosted by charming lady rattling her lifeboat collecting box! Twice a day, during flag week, Anne Burdett makes the ten minute... - View image in PDF
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FROM FAIREY.. THREE KINDS OF LIFEBOATS FOR THREE KINDS OF CONDITIONS.
All built to the highest standards. Standards that have made Fairey justifiably famous as lifeboat builders.
All three have all weather...
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Well oiled! Ray Burden and his wife Deanna recently presented an oil painting of Weymouth lifeboat, Tony Vanderve/l, to coxswain Bob Runyeard.
Ray painted the picture and donated it to the station to mark the 20th... - View image in PDF
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Fi/ey's boathouse is not as old as it looks - it was in fact completed in 1991- and was designed to fit a very restricted site on the promenade, as can be seen in the aerial photographs on page 27.. - View image in PDF
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DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—At about 4 P.M. on Saturday, the 21st July, the steamer Lily, of Liverpool, which had left that port in the morning with six hundred and twenty-eight passengers for Douglas, ran aground on the rocks at Onchan Harbour,...
At 5.30 A.M.
on the 20th February, during a N.N. W.
gale, with snow-squalls and a very heavy sea, the Coxswains and Coastguard observed a vessel in distress about half a mile south of Palling. The crew and...
FENIT (TRALEE BAY).—On the evening of the 24th April the schooner Giles Lang, of St. Ives, bound from Galway for Cardiff, laden with hay, which had put into Fenit from stress of weather, dragged her anchor and sent up signals of distress;...