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FEBRUARY 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 6.50 P.M. information was received that a man had been cut off by the tide on a rock half a mile from the boat house, and was in great danger. A S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea, and the tide was rising....
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FERRYSIDE, CAEMAHTHEN BAY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new Life-boat for this station—the boat, like its predecessor, being named the City of Manchester. It is 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rows 10 oars...
Category: Articles
Frank Shaw, of North Shields
On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her cable and try fresh anchorage off...
Brooke Marine Ltd
Brooke Marine Limited SHIPBUILDERS-ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS ESTABLISHED 1S74 NAMES Type 50 ft Self-Righting Length overall 50' 0' Beam 14' 6' Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp. gallons Twin General...
Category: Advertisement
Rnli Medals and the Royal Mint By Oliver Warner
FROM ITS FOUNDATION in 1824, until the reign of George V, the Institution's medals were designed by officials of the Royal Mint. By courtesy of the Deputy Master, I am able to illustrate photographs of the original dies (Figs. 1 and 2),...
Category: Medals
A Rubber Dinghy
MAY 3RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Two boys in a rubber dinghy were missing, but they were picked up by an air-sea rescue launch. - Rewards, £17 8s..
Mr Bruce Fleet Secretary of the Margate Life-Boat Presenting a Plaque In March 1969 Commemorating the Service of the RAF Helicopters at Mansion Kent Mr Fleet Ma
Mr. Bruce Fleet, secretary of the Margate life-boat, presenting a plaque in March, 1969, commemorating the service of the R.A.F. helicopters at Mansion, Kent. Mr. Fleet made the presentation on behalf of Coxswain Alf Manning and the crew of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Catamaran
One cat twice HM COASTGUARD informed Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives lifeboat station at noon on Saturday August 16, 1980, that a small catamaran being sailed singlehanded had capsized two miles east of the station. Coxswain Cocking made...
Broaching yacht
RED BAY AND LARNE | 25 AUGUST
A 10m yacht was broaching in heavy seas off Torr Head on the north Antrim coast, and was in danger of being dismasted.
Her crew of four needed...
Category: Articles
lolanthe
At 11.57 a-m- °n 2r>d September, 1966, information was received that the German ship Jane had the British yacht lolanthe in tow and was anxious to hand her over to the life-boat. The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...