LAST YEAR'S capsize of the roll-on roll-off ferry Herald of Free Enterprise close to Zeebrugge Harbour entrance, brought sharply into focus the need for emergency services on land and at sea to be alert and ready to cope with the myriad...
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26th October. A boat was seen close inshore in a dangerous position but got away un- aided.—Rewards, £19 14s..
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— 3rd December. A drifter had been seen to sink and her crew take to the ship's boat. Another drifter belonging to the same port picked them up.—Rewards, £7 16s. 6d..
On the return of a fishing-boat from the Broadsea fishing-ground on the 3rd August the crew reported that they had not seen anything of the Klondyke, another fishing-boat of Port Patrick, which had two men on board. As there was a rough sea...
'Who said Braintree did not need a lifeboat?' writes 15- year-old A. Taylor who took this photograph at Braintree's fun day on May 15. The D class inflatable lifeboat, he said, was really only there for display! Despite a partly... - View image in PDF
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BLOWN ON TO REEF Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 4.18 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the South Gare lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with a crew of two had been blown on to a slag reef about a quarter of...
Hidden among a band of ace fund raisers are Shoreham lifeboat's motor mechanic. Jack Silverson, and Ian Wallington, RO(SE). The children, class 1 (aged 10 and II) of Shoreham Beach First School, have just handed over a cheque for... - View image in PDF
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LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY MINESWEEPER AGROUND Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.2 on the morning of the 2nd April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a minesweeper had been reported ashore near St. Catherine's Point. There...
At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore
‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...
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