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Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D...
Your Letters
Lifeboatmen brought to book.
I am currently researching a book on men whose lives have been closely connected with the coasts of the British Isles. This work will be in a similar vein to my recently published Tales of the...
Category: Correspondence
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Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
Category: Advertisement
Norman
Save Our Pot Plants Margate's Mersey class lifeboat Leonard Kent was called to another sinking incident in the South East Division, this time on Boxing Day 1992.
The elderly 35ft motor cruiser Norman, with three people...
Life-Boat Song
SING Ho! ho 1 ho! how the wild winds blow, And the breakers in fury foam, While, with thund'ring roar, o'er the storm-swept shore, The waves in their frenzy roam! Oh, many a ship, in the storm-fiend's grip, Would add to the...
Category: Songs
A Photograph Taken In March 1969 As a Boat Crosses the Bar at Aberdeen Harbour During the Same Period of Bad Weather Which Caused the Loss of the Longhope Life-Boat
A photograph taken in March, 1969, as a boat crosses the bar at Aberdeen harbour during the same period of bad weather which caused the loss of the Longhope life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Right Reverend Professor James a Whyte (Left) Aboard the Arun Bp Forties During His Visit to Abe
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Professor James A. Whyte (left) aboard the Arun BP Forties during his visit to Aberdeen lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Triton
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock onthe morning of the 5th October the fishing smack Triton, of Yarmouth, stranded on the Barber Sand. The weather at the time was squally, and there was a heavy sea on the beach and sands. The -vessel was...
Silver Spray
RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The ketch, Silver Spray, of Lowestoft, laden with machinery and stone, and bound from Guernsey for the North of England, showed signals of distress when about a quarter of a mile E. of Ryde pier, on the night of the 27th...
The Hoganas
KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—A thick fog was experienced here on the 9th February, and when it cleared a little a barquentine was discerned riding at anchor in a dangerous position close to the S.W. part of the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat Charles...