While the Life- boat Elliot Galer was out for her quarterly exercise, during a strong S.E. wind and rough sea on the 25th September, a small boat was sighted with four men in her. She was evi- dently in distress, and the Life-boat bore down...
Trapped under sea wall AT 1852 on Tuesday September 11, 1984, Lyme Regis honorary secretary was informed by Portland Coastguard that some people had been cut off by the tide at Black Beach groynes, some six cables to the north east of Lyme...
THE YEAR OF 1891 was one well remembered for the terrible storms that caused many lives to be lost in the Channel. The Romney Marsh coast was no exception. On March 9, 1891, in a severe gale the Coastguard, with local folk, were called to a...
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Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1956, a small fishing boat was seen from the boathouse to be firing distresssignals about one mile and a quarter north-east of the life-boat...
Measurements giving the fore and ajt positions of all transverse members—moulds, bulkheads and timbers—are brought down from building batten to hog by plumb line.. - View image in PDF
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Fig. 3: Mahogany filler chocks fitted to longitudinals between timbers are individually shaped to take up fore and aft curve of hull.. - View image in PDF
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Right When you are busy with one task-retrieving a survivor for example - is the worst time to suffer an emergency.
Coxswain Eric Ward (front) and Mechanic Tommy Cocking from St Ives get to grips with an un-cooperative... - View image in PDF
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MAY 22 ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6 A.M. the coastguard reported that the steam drifter the Golden Rod, of Peterhead, was ashore near Slains Castle, five miles S.W. of Buchan Ness. As the weather was fine, with a...
In April over 170 guests ate, drank and danced the night away at a 175 Dinner Dance organised by Bangor branch.. - View image in PDF
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