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The National Fire Service Float Gladys

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

JANUARY 3 1 ST AND FEBRUARY 1 ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11 A.M.on the 31st of January the naval control reported that the National Fire Service float Gladys, lying half a mile west of the pier, was driving on to the sands, and at...

Increase of British Shipping

Date: February 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 119

THOSE who are old enough to remember the repeal of the navigation laws describe the state of feeling that prevailed among the shipowning class when the measure was carried safely through Parliament as one of absolute panic. Nothing but the...

Category: Articles

Life-Boats of the Reserve Fleet

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Life-Boats of the Reserve Fleet. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Presenters of BBC TV's Coast

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

The Presenters Of Bbc Tv's Coast. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Canoe

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

Ramsgate, Kent. — 22nd August.

Two German students had been re- ported as six miles east of the East Goodwin light-vessel in a canoe. The life-boat went out to look for them, but they reached Ramsgate without help.—Rewards,...

The Replica 12th Century Long Boat Aileach

Date: Summer 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 521

Longboat's steering fails 40 miles north of Cape WrathSome of the latest technology came to the aid of some of the earliest when Stromness lifeboat station's relief Arun class Newsbuoy was launched to the aid of a replica 12th...

The S.S. Trent

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

The s.s. Goole, of Goole, whilst bound on the 24th June from that port to London with a cargo of coal, stranded on the middle Hasboro sands during a dense fog, and two barges which she was towing broke adrift.

' The...

The S.S. Irish Holly

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

IRISH DISTRICT Valentia, Co. Kerry-At 8.45 p.m.

on 22nd January, 1967, a large vessel was reported to have anchored in a very dangerousdangerous position in Loughkay. Weather conditions were too severe for the local pilot...

Raymond Taylor Mbe,

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

Raymond Taylor MBE, Cullercoats branch president, Raymond first served the Cullercoats crew when he was just 14 and later went on to become second coxswain and senior helmsman of the lifeboat.

Following his retirement at 50...

Category: Obituaries

Gipsy, of Chepstow

Date: October 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 74

On the 19th February, the schooner Gipsy, of Chepstow, was wrecked on St. Ives Ridge, during a strong northerly gale. The Moses life-boat was launched when the vessel was seen running for St. Ives, and reached her just as she grounded on the...